People Are Freaking-Out! ....That's A Good Thing > Just Deal With It

Your MesaZona blogger has been expecting and waiting for this news for years - it's about time! Innovations - sure > Give me more, please.
After living in major East Coast cities most of my adult life, gotta admit yours truly has been suffering from the internal-combustion suburban car-driven here in Arizona, blowing a few mental-pistons far too many times. Instead of freaking-out I am so thrilled and so happy that renewable energy-powered automobiles are on the way.
Way Mo' better for sure. But some people are freaking-out

Here's a headline today from The Washington Post 11 Dec 2017 at 9:32 AM

‘People are freaking out.’

Will electric vehicles doom your neighborhood auto mechanic?

By Peter Holley

 Why does the reporter worry about that?

" . . . As a wave of electric vehicles quickly approaches, experts say, it could wash away a large portion of a skilled labor group that has been around for decades — the neighborhood auto mechanic. . . "

The U.S. auto repair industry employs about 750,000 workers, nearly four times the number of people employed by the coal-mining industry. Though they are increasingly skilled and tech-savvy, many experts say, they are not prepared for the end of gas-powered transportation.

The fear factor is huge and the future appears to be coming into greater focus fast with each passing month. 

 

What does all that mean?

 

"Even for repair shops on the cutting edge — often in urban areas where hybrid cars are already commonplace — survival may not be a matter of willingness to adapt, but by how quickly a business can reasonably do so. Though he doesn’t foresee his industry being wiped out by electric cars, Moss said he expects electric technology to arrive much faster than most analysts predict. “Technology compresses time,”  

Read more and look into it > WaPo 

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Peter Holley is a technology reporter at The Washington Post.

He can be reached at peter.holley@washpost.com.

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