Middle Class Jobs Amid Highly Automated Systems?

An operator sits in front of a giant, curved monitor on an otherwise Spartan white desk. With mouse and keyboard, she interacts remotely with an autonomous vehicle (AV) out on the roadway that needs, and has ‘called for,’ her help. The AV ‘wants’ to go around an obstacle—a double-parked delivery vehicle—that impedes its progress, but it is not sure if it should execute an overtake maneuver. The young woman examines the scene, clicks a series of buttons and, in response to her input, the car cautiously edges out, crosses the double yellow line, and drives around the obstruction to continue on its journey.