In the USA currently there are about 3.5 million truck drivers (~55K/yr), 750,000 Uber drivers (~$10/hr), 208,000 taxi drivers (~$30K/yr), 690,000 bus drivers (~$40K/yr) – and about 222 million drivers licenses are owned in the United States right now.
When these new self-driving vehicles are introduced, what do we do with all the misplaced, unemployed people? We can’t simply give them a job somewhere else as a majority of these people suffer from an inadequate education, which is why they worked these jobs in the first place. Not to mention, these new vehicles will be electric, greatly reducing the ~142 billion gallons of gasoline sold in the US every year. Are self-driving vehicles detrimental to the petroleum industry? Or will the money no longer being spent on drivers salaries be used to compensate?
Also, considering wastefulness, what will be done with the 264 million ordinary, human operated vehicles that exist in the US today? Can we learn to convert them into self-driving vehicles or will we have to find a way to dispose of them?

Reference:

What are the Economic Impacts of Self-Driving Cars on Cities and Towns?

The digital divide is the name given to the uneven distribution of access to technology across the globe. Due to the typically high value of computers and other electronic devices, poverty and financial struggles are usually to blame for this discrepancy. If not just a cost concern, many people either simply don’t care to use the technology or are uninformed on how to use the technology, which is an issue within itself. One main issue surrounding the digital divide is the unequal access to information, which is extremely relevant in many of today’s education systems. Penn State for example utilizes software like Canvas and Lionpath to inform students of assignments which they will then complete and later submit online.
Students with access currently have a competitive advantage over those who do not for a couple of reasons; a) they have access to unlimited information via connection to the internet and b) they are able to engage in society through use of this modern technology – we are becoming a very tech-oriented world and this knowledge is important especially regarding job opportunities and future employment. That being said, if those in substandard places don’t gain access to the same modern technologies, they will ultimately be stuck in a rut (in poverty and unable to afford technology, therefore unable to use technology, therefore does not obtain a job and is unable to make money to provide for themselves or their children (future generations)).

What are the possible solutions to this issue?

How can we make access to information and communication technologies more affordable?

References:

5 Ways the Digital Divide Effects Education

Social Concerns
As the introduction of AI and robotics becomes more prominent in today’s society, making their way into a variety of occupations and performing jobs at a level above that of human capability, it comes as no surprise that robots may pose a threat to society in more ways than one. AI is becoming increasingly popular and allowing implementation in the near future may result in significant increases in unemployment in certain sectors, i.e., Bus drivers or DMV operators after self-driving cars are introduced. Forming social concern number one, robots overtaking humans in the workforce. There have been countless arguments as to if machinery can actually perform at a superior level to that of a human, a lot of arguments where the robot has come out on top for reasons including increased precision, wider knowledge base, stamina etc. However, despite AI contributing to employment challenges in society, the development of simple technology continues to negatively impact human social life. For example, cellular phone technology: millions of people in the US have become dependent on this technology, so much so that basic communication skills are lost when faced with real life interactions. To better express the previous statement, a study by Tamyra Pierce was undertaken to examine how the use of technology had impacted (280) high school students on a social level. The results showed a correlation between the level of social anxiety of face-to-face interaction, specifically recording an increased level of anxiety following an increased amount of online interaction the student had participated in. Furthermore, students reported that they were now far more nervous meeting someone in person than they were meeting someone online. People are also more socially awkward when posed with real life situations as the expression of body language, tone, touch and facial expression is not possible through machinery.

Ethical Concerns
As soon as a machine is used to perform human tasks, a number of ethical concerns can arise. For example, in terms of advising or diagnosing, a machine can quite simply, only make decisions based on the information that has been programmed into its system, making machines solely fact / knowledge based, not accounting for the areas of emotion, intuition or reason; all factors of which may limit the decision-making capabilities of the machine. Not to mention, referring again to the example of a doctor, if a machine or expert system was designed to mimic the capabilities of a doctor but fails at the assigned task resulting in the death of the patient, who is liable? Who become parties in a lawsuit? The programmers? The owner of the equipment? The patient? Modern bureaucracy often distributes responsibility in such a broad manner that it may be possible no single individual or party can be identified as culpable a result of a system’s catastrophe.

https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/09/16/are-cell-phones-ruining-our-social-skills/

https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/artificial-intelligence.pdf