Techies Don't Think Trump Could Drive the Self-Driving Car

With the vital exception of venture capitalist Peter Thiel, tomorrow-focused Silicon Valley tends to see Donald Trump as the candidate of yesterday. Tech workers are demonstrably less than fans of the Republican presidential nominee. Among the many issues at which they find themselves at odds, the real estate/media maven's approach to automation is anathema to the Valley as autonomous cars speed ever closer. "You have a potential candidate in Trump where his entire rhetoric is, 'We're going to bring back all those old jobs, we're not going to go into the future,'" Aaron Levie, CEO and founder of Box, said this week at Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit in San Francisco. Levie's right: Trump's promise to "bring back" 5 million factory jobs spirited away overseas has been an vital tenet of his campaign.