No, during the industrial revolution jobs were mostly created. This was at the same time the agricultural sector lost most jobs. With industry 2.0 and people being replaced, these moved into the service industry. Now the service industry is replaced with no where to go.
Economy will crash in the next 5 years either way with mass replacement of people by AI (call centers, taxi drivers, truck drivers, ...).
Edit: Plus German car industry will crash either way because most people work not in building cars, but motors, electronics, transmission etc. which are mostly redundant with electric cars.
As a German who never owned a car (have driver license 30+ years) and never will, hurray!
Next: Petrol cars please.
Costs for cities would decrease a lot [1], room for bicycles would increase, noise would drop to a level which can't believed, ambulances would be adjusted to walking persons instead of loud cars with their stereos on and air would be wonderful.
With the web and requests the default would look to be parallel for most developers. The container runtime (Ruby, Python, Java) just abstracts away the parallelism on different cores.
Ebay/Paypal used sending 1c to a back account to verify your identity. Amazon never did, they happily take money from any account entered in their system with public data.