[ExI] new job

[Stuart LaForge]

On 2024-11-20 08:01, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> Well, OK not exactly.  But it occurred to me that a lot of fun new
> jobs today didn't even exist back in the olden days, such as 2020.
> 
> Musk introduced the robotaxi last month, which we talked about here
> for decades.  In all that discussion, nobody ever realized a new
> requirement: somebody to write fun wisecracks for the taxi to say.
> Since it is a computer with voice, you could have it do accents, you
> could have it guess by the name on the credit card if the passenger is
> male or female.  Then have it say upon arrival in a female voice: OK
> Mister, you wanted to come here.  You did.  Now get outta me.
> 
> That sorta thing, extra points for funny dual-interpretable sexual
> innuendo.  Sure you will offend the delicate college student crowd,
> but the little old ladies will love it.

Joking aside, one more job I can think of that robotaxis wiil create is 
somebody to clean the vomit and urine out of the robocab after drunks 
puke or pee in the cab on the way home from barhopping. Used to be the 
driver's responsibility, now it is Elon's. Elon will probably delegate.

Stuart LaForge