I see a lot of parallels to this and airline control towers.
I think most can see that what control towers are doing is highly automatable (It's a queue) yet the industry has sabotaged it at every turn. Because the jobs it will eliminate are the ones that need to verify the system works correctly.
A similar thing happens with train operators. We are busy setting up self driving cars, yet a self driving train is almost a trivial implementation that we don't do because the train conductors would never get on board with such a system.
I think most can see that what control towers are doing is highly automatable (It's a queue) yet the industry has sabotaged it at every turn. Because the jobs it will eliminate are the ones that need to verify the system works correctly.
A similar thing happens with train operators. We are busy setting up self driving cars, yet a self driving train is almost a trivial implementation that we don't do because the train conductors would never get on board with such a system.