Increased automation means humans will soon be able to delegate menial tasks such as putting out the bins and watching The Wire
Driverless robot taxis are set to be trialled in Fujisawa from March next year, which is either an irreversible stepping stone on the path towards the inevitable robot apocalypse – our destruction coming not from Skynet launching a nuke at us while we all play innocently in a playground surrounded by a chain link fence, but instead from a load of cabs turning en masse and ramming into us until we’re ground down to nothing but mince and bone debris – or, less importantly, just one step towards wiping out cabbies altogether.
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