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Originally Posted by JesseK
Call me a cynic, but I think "fully autonomous street view cars" is an example of programmers writing code to directly and indiscriminantly eliminate someone's job.
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Cynic
But seriously, isn't the point of FIRST to celebrate science and technology? It's unfortunate that automation eliminates jobs, but it's also something that will likely benefit society as a whole; the same argument could be leveled against the cotton gin, the printing press, the steam engine, telegraph, telephone, computer, internet.