There’s really not much stopping changing tires from being automated away.
Sounds like you've never changed a tire. Or at least not outside of a very controlled environment.
Sounds like you've never changed a tire. Or at least not outside of a very controlled environment.
I have even replaced car tires before and yet still have this opinion.
How are these put on in the first place on an assembly line?
"Oh, you think I've never changed a tire? Well here is my abstract high level understanding of the steps to changing a tire! And have you considered the quintessential controlled environment for putting tires onto cars?"
Car washes are automated even though they haven't answered the edge cases of how to wash your car when your car is rolled on its side or a terrorist is actively blowing up the equipment. They simply only operate when your car is right side up (and other conditions, like in neutral, wipers off, and a driver who is willing to not exit the vehicle) and when there aren't active bombings on the building. And other "edge" cases.
Just because there is a possibility for something to not work, doesn't make it useless. Automated tire replacements could start with very rigid cases where they are applicable, and expact the scope slowly to allow more cases, like a bent wheel or poor weather.