Kind of. It might be more fair that enshittification is making the traditional options less favorable.
I don’t specifically want to use self-checkout, but want to avoid the lines, hassle, slowness, and pushing affiliate cards that comes with a manned checkout these days. Self-checkout is only valuable in reference to how painful it is otherwise it.
Similarly trains : I don’t care what’s driving since I never come into contact with them but I prefer they not run off the tracks while texting and that they stop consistently
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Trains are already as “self driving” as they can safely be and with how many people a train can move compared to how few people need to manage one, there’s already not much reason to go fully automate.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 5 days ago
Denmark’s metro’s are fully automated and it’s amazing.
Automation is good, there’s just a teething period.
We mostly automated sewing and dishwashing which put people out of jobs, but in the long term it’s been good
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
how does its full automation make it amazing to you?
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 4 days ago
I can sit in front in a “fake cockpit” and look out the front window.
But more importantly they run like clockwork, there’s often a new metro every 7min they arrive and leave exactly when scheduled.
I’m sure they also save money