doesn't Toyota have some manufacturing plants in America?

Several. IIRC, every Camry sold in America is made in America.

Wait.... krellin, hypocrite? No way, yebellz!

It's probably more like "fuckign hypocrite" anyway.

I'd rather give more jobs to the people that design and build the robots. But I know the left prefers to have serfs and peasants paying union dues that go to the left's campaign funds.

^Give that man a cigar! Seriously, come raid one of the best in my humidor. You've earned it!

Wouldn't the people assembling the robots be rather similar to the serfs building the cars?

A little higher skill and a lot fewer bots to build than cars. Plus, bots don't have upholstery.

yebellz - uhhhh....no, Fanuc Robotics, ABB Robotics, etc....they all employ American workers that build the robots that run the factories that produce higher quality automobiles.

American Robots CREATE American cars. If you change plants back over to Union waged workers, with a subsequent drop in Quality, then your cas will go back to be manufactured in MEXICO and beyond.

God bless the American robot for creating and maintaining American jobs.

bo fucks, you don't know shit about krellin. And you know even less about the fucking auto industry.

Mat Damon predicted it guyz, Elysium the rich wwill live in space and the midde class wil just make robots her on eArth for the 1% you heard it here first.

And James Camron too well have terminators controlling us wake up sheeple

If you don't know that Toyota is one of the most American-made cars around, you don't seem to know much about the auto industry either, krellybelly.

As a matter of fact, my company helps company *HIRE* the individuals that build, program, install, and maintain the robots. We also hire the factory managers that run the US manufacturing plants that know how American robots works. All part of the US domestic auto industry (as opposed to all you morons driving "American" cars produced every but the USA)

Bosucks - I know that Toyota is an "American" car manufacturer that builds cars inthe US. I also know what the robot did to the Quality of American automobiles....the ones that people QUIT buying when Toyota built cars in the US with robots, while the fuckiing US auto industry was still fighting with the fucking Unions.

If you will note, moron, I specifically stated TOYOTA PROMISES LOWER QUALITY.

And with that pending lower quality, Toyota will sell less cars, and rquire fewer of those workers they are hiring to replace their robots.

Again, you know nothing about the auto industry.

If the robots take up work though, where does that leave many of the lower skilled factory workers? If they update their skill set, where does that leave the people who are slightly more specialized? I'm sure niches will open for some, but for most, I'm not sure.

Further, if you think Toyota is an "AMerican Made" car, you are truly stupider than I thought.

Improting parts from overseas, and running them througha sort-and-ship company based in America, so that the part is now "American sourced", hardly make a car American. They are assembled in America.

I have *also* helped hire the Quality Inspectors that work short-term jobs in the sort-and-ship facilities that "earn" a part the "made in America" label.

Same can be said for a lot of US product, but if you are truly stupid enough to believe Toyota is an "American Car", you dumber than I thought.

It'll probably take a while for Toyota to lose that much business though. They have a very solid reputation at the moment, and as the media is slamming GM (deepening people's distrust in American-based companies), I think Toyota will hold an edge over many other companies for a while yet.

grking - Robots take up jobs...and protect jobs at the same time. If you are working in a Union plant producing a low-quality product (due to human error/negligence) it isn't taht long before the manufacturing picks up and moves across the border. By installing a robot to perform heavy labor jobs - such as welding the body/frame together - you lower the overall cost of the vehicle, you increase the quality - thus meaning you can keep the plant hear (because human labor cost is now low enough to compensate for shipping costs if the vehicle was produced in a foreign country), plus you increase quality leading to higher sales. There is a happy balance between man and machine that benefits the US auto worker in a *global* industrial world.

*deepening the distrust of many

Toyota just got fined $1.2 Billion for there recall cover-up with the sudden acceleration problem. Plus, US automotive quality is way on the rise. GM is taking shit...meaning you will good great discounts and rebates at GM dealerships for vehicles that otherwise are highly competitive if not better than Toyota in many instances.

The "Toyota is a better car" media mantra of the old days is bullshit.

Sorry, cross-post there

I'll stick with my Mercedes, thanks. Next upgrade beyond another Benz will be to a Jaguar or, if I hit it big in a poker tourney, an Aston Martin.

Maserati 4 the win!!!! those things are sweet!

This is really old news from the 1990s when Japanese companies realized that if they used too many robots, that they wouldn't need low level employees and the unemployment rate would soar.

"If the robots take up work though, where does that leave many of the lower skilled factory workers? If they update their skill set, where does that leave the people who are slightly more specialized? I'm sure niches will open for some, but for most, I'm not sure."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite_fallacy

"Given that technological change generally increases productivity, it is a tenet held in economics since the 19th century that technological change, although it disrupts the careers of individuals and the health of particular firms, produces opportunities for the creation of new, unrelated jobs. The notion of technological unemployment leading to structural unemployment (and being macroeconomically injurious) is often called the Luddite fallacy, named after the early historical example of the Luddites."

"This is really old news from the 1990s when Japanese companies realized that if they used too many robots, that they wouldn't need low level employees and the unemployment rate would soar."
Citation needed