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Sanitation ninjas can't be far off. You'll think you're in the clear and drop that wrapper...

Don't forget top-notch geologists will be called "rock" stars.

And the rare geologist astronomer will be called a "rock" "star" I guess...

And soon "star" "trek"

most likely they will be at google designing trucks that drive themselves and pick up their own garbage.

Holy liability Batman! Self driving cars are bad enough, and people get in them voluntarily and they aren't designed to crush-compact what they pick up.

I disagree, I'd rather have a computer driving a trash truck than a tired human being at 4AM.

Depending on where you live and how involved unions are, they already have trash trucks that do not require a human to pick up the garbage. The driver activates a mechanical arm as it picks stuff up.

Unions will be the problem with a lot of the robotic implementations.

I've always had my garbage picked up by at least a two-person team. I would be extremely wary of mechanical arms activated by a sole operator at 4 am, but that might be just my privileged socialism bubbling up again.

Going from one human to zero humans has a large impact on who's responsible for any screw-ups. I'm not sure the insurance will make it worth it to either the manufacturers or the operators anytime soon.

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