Yesterday I saw a funny cartoon about self driving cars by Scott Adams from the perspective of a robot with an attitude:When I discuss the impact of automation on the labor market I sometimes run into the argument that self driving cars are still years away and that there are a lot of edge cases to solve before they will replace human drivers. That argument makes it appear as if there was some distinct moment in the future where we finally say “hurrah, the self driving car is completely finis...

Yesterday I saw a funny cartoon about self driving cars by Scott Adams from the perspective of a robot with an attitude:When I discuss the impact of automation on the labor market I sometimes run into the argument that self driving cars are still years away and that there are a lot of edge cases to solve before they will replace human drivers. That argument makes it appear as if there was some distinct moment in the future where we finally say “hurrah, the self driving car is completely finis...