Audi Androids ???

The carmaker Audi tries using robotic technology to improve the position of its standing workers: The "Chairless chair" - the chair vacant chair. The device was developed by the Swiss start Noonee and is a hydraulically driven chair that provides support for people who stand all day long.

http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/03/27/stuhl-zum-anziehen-audi-testet-exo-skelett-fuer-fabrik-arbeiter/

[You may have to translate from the original German to read this report.]

This sounds like a first step in the process of converting workers from humans to androids to robots.

If the cars themselves become self-driving robots, then what's the role of humans in the process?

If the out-of-work humans the robots replace no longer can afford to buy the cars, isn't the entire process self defeating?

Or does this suggest that we are headed for an economy in which only a few (bankgangsters, corporate CEOs, and their collaborators in the one percent) can afford such things and the rest of us are turned into carbon storage devices to help clean up the atmosphere so that the rich can breath the fresh air we'll make for them?

Other possible uses for humans include functioning as incubators for making life-saving drugs for the rich and/or growing new organs or teeth for them.

I urge y'all to come up with some additional viable alternatives. We've probably got less than 10 years until the powers that be start to cull the herd in earnest.