Well guess I need to go back to school and major in automation repair... unless that will be automated as well.
Scary that tech is slowly killing so many jobs, we knew the writing was on the wall back in the 60s but it's still something to consider when going into a career.
"repair" will eventually go the way of 'trash it and replace it' as the tech becomes cheaper- with the exception of the really expensive industrial tech.
Self driving vehicles are going to kill a LOT of jobs, more than anyone thinks. Bodyshops and automotive repair places are going to die very quickly, but then again so will many insurance jobs, since those things aren't anywhere near as prone to accidents. Traffic cops that make their living on writing speeding tickets to motorists that don't keep an eye out for speed traps (and these are absolutely a thing) are probably gone as well- a lot of smaller municipalities lean heavily on police writing citations to bring in revenue. That's going to have a cascade effect down to public defenders and municipal court judges.
less traffic accidents means less EMTs, and less emergency room staff. Traffic fatalities are 92 per day and 32,000 per year- and that's just fatalities. "injuries" are even higher. There were 5.4 MILLION auto accidents with 2.4 million injuries in 2010 alone.
The shift to electric vehicles instead of gasoline (and yes, this is inevitable) is going to kill still MORE jobs, since those things have no transmissions, have no emissions/exhaust system, don't use oil, and the motors are a tiny fraction of the size of a combustion engine. removing and replacing them in the case of a problem is trivial compared to a gasoline engine- repairing them probably won't be cost effective.
There's not really an area of the economy that's going to be able to expand to accomodate the automotive repair, maintenance, and insurance business collapsing overnight- or the impact on law enforcement and healthcare.