A self-driving truck just hauled 51,744 cans of Budweiser on a Colorado highway

Let's see Otto get those heavy ### beer loads legal or go around scales!

 

They're trying to say that using autonomous vehicle technology is safer than having a driver behind the wheel.

With today's drivers, that is the case. Why?

Because trucking companies don't offer pay, benefit and work schedules that are designed to attract the best and safest drivers. If they did, then the drivers that would sit in their seats and operate their trucks would be safer and more reliable than any autonomous technology that's available.

 

All I can say is, "I'm glad I am retired!" smh

 

They'll start loading them to be legal. Yard jockey will do all that work. What Otto can't do is back into the docks at liquor distributors. I can think of one up in the UP where you have to leave the truck at a 15 degree angle to the trailer until the mirror clears the garage door, then straighten up.

It's not drivers that need to worry. It's brokers, customer service, accounts payable/receivable that need to worry. Truck drivers will take over those roles while the truck drives itself. All the driver will be responsible for is pretrips, dealing with customers (backing, coupling, etc) and programing the navigation.

 

When Jill drives your truck

 

There's a sensor for that.

Wait for the automated u-turn...

 

How'd that happen?

 

Why was it so important that no vehicles were parked along the highway?