Franglais:
The “service industry” refers more to the “City” rather than pizza parlours in this case! UK Ltd earns more from banking, insurance and finance than it does from cars etc.
Big earners can still stay at home and work. In fact with pandemic precipitated office closures, some office support staff, cleaners, security, and yes, food suppliers, are losing work, but not the already financially secure investors and “top tier” workers.
So as far as the Government’s donors are concerned, everything is ticking along nicely. Fair enough.
Self driving hand free cars are coming to the UK next year.
Boris has launched a study into it and confident next year hands free driving will be legal on the uks motorways
dexxy57:
I’ll be happy to be corrected, but isn’t the UK economy roughly 80% Service/20% Manufacturing?
The pandemic has put paid to the service industry in the short term, Brexit (allegedly) kicks in after New Year . . .
The future’s looking good.
Yep our manufacturing sectror decimated by the transfer of industry to Europe within the tariff free single market.
The future has looked bad since the mid 1970’s in that regard.
Redundant workers told to retrain as HGV drivers civilian and military.
While the government does everything it can to detroy the road transport sector because it’s not politically correct to support nasty juggernauts running around.Oh wait let’s give the jobs to robots now suddenly it’s all about economic growth.
Translates as bunch of white collar zb’s are jealous of those freedom loving truck driving oiks.
edd1974:
Self driving hand free cars are coming to the UK next year.
Hands-free driving could be made legal on UK roads by spring - BBC News
Boris has launched a study into it and confident next year hands free driving will be legal on the uks motorways
From that link:
"The Department for Transport (DfT) has issued a call for evidence into automated lane keeping systems (ALKS).
Such technology controls a car’s movements and can keep it in lane for extended periods, although drivers need to be ready to take back control.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders claims it could cut accidents.
The technology for a car to steer itself and stay in lane - even around curves - already exists in some modern cars, but the law says that drivers must remain alert and ready to take over instantly.
I can see that automation is on its way, but there is a problem here. If a driver is sat for extended periods doing nowt but watch out the windscreen, they are not going to stay alert.
In aircraft the pilots have whole minutes before hitting the deck to sort things out in the rare case of catastrophic failure of auto systems. In road vehicles drivers don`t.
Carryfast:
dexxy57:
I’ll be happy to be corrected, but isn’t the UK economy roughly 80% Service/20% Manufacturing?
The pandemic has put paid to the service industry in the short term, Brexit (allegedly) kicks in after New Year . . .
The future’s looking good.
Yep our manufacturing sectror decimated by the transfer of industry to Europe within the tariff free single market.
The future has looked bad since the mid 1970’s in that regard.
Redundant workers told to retrain as HGV drivers civilian and military.
While the government does everything it can to detroy the road transport sector because it’s not politically correct to support nasty juggernauts running around.Oh wait let’s give the jobs to robots now suddenly it’s all about economic growth.
Translates as bunch of white collar zb’s are jealous of those freedom loving truck driving oiks.
The British manufacturing base was not helped by Thatchers Tories, and not helped by British Leyland themselves.
BMW, Mercedes, Citroen, Renault, FIAT, all worked to the same set of rules as BL, but they survived, didn`t they?
But the UK did attract Honda, Toyota, and Nissan, to manufacture here and export tariff free into the EU. If we werent in the EU we might well have been even worse off.
And the Brexit we are getting, no matter what you would like, or what you imagined, isnt going be one protecting UK jobs and factories, but an open one with even less rights for workers as we become "more competitive" with world leaders. We wont get to win manufacturing jobs by being more expensive than Chinese or Indian workers in WTO deals.
Carryfast:
now suddenly it’s all about economic growth.
Nothing “sudden” about it.
twitter.com/rorystewartuk/statu … 01?lang=en
The video is from 2015. Minford is a favourite of the Brexiteers and was liked by Thatcher. He was one of her advisors on the Poll Tax as well as the closing of coal and other industries.
Franglais:
edd1974:
Self driving hand free cars are coming to the UK next year.
Hands-free driving could be made legal on UK roads by spring - BBC News
Boris has launched a study into it and confident next year hands free driving will be legal on the uks motorways
From that link:
"The Department for Transport (DfT) has issued a call for evidence into automated lane keeping systems (ALKS).
Such technology controls a car’s movements and can keep it in lane for extended periods, although drivers need to be ready to take back control.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders claims it could cut accidents.
The technology for a car to steer itself and stay in lane - even around curves - already exists in some modern cars, but the law says that drivers must remain alert and ready to take over instantly.
I can see that automation is on its way, but there is a problem here. If a driver is sat for extended periods doing nowt but watch out the windscreen, they are not going to stay alert.
In aircraft the pilots have whole minutes before hitting the deck to sort things out in the rare case of catastrophic failure of auto systems. In road vehicles drivers don`t.
There are too many owners of Tesla cars believing the hype of Tesla’s autopliot & throwing caution to the wind in a dangerous devil may care way. In reality it’s no more than a glorified cruise control & level 2 autonomy at best. In my opinion it will just encourage drivers to pick up their mobile phones like this chap in Taiwan 
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Daimler already has ‘Highway Pilot’ for trucks out for driving on public roads. daimler.com/innovation/case … lot-2.html
