Truck of the future aims to drive itself

And Popular Science has been promising an affordable flying car on the cover every few years since 1950.

 

Here we go again

 

I am expecting this to fail miserably in the usa. Still I really dont like where technology is going in this apsect. You know I still find it sad that the most common thing people do in everyday life is driving, yet most people fail at it bad. So now they want to put computer controlled cars and trucks with regular people whats going to happen when those fancy radars get iced up in the winter and the computer mistakenly applies the breaks.

 

What can go wrong with technology?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNi17YLnZpg

 

As i posted on the other 1700 threads, it will happen, and within the next 20 years, OTR will be done driverless.
It's called the normalcy effect to not believe it, it's why Hitler could round up the Jews so easily, they heard Jews were being rounded up in nearby towns, but they stayed put, because it couldn't happen to them.

in 1890, 94% if the population worked on a farm, in 2014, 3% of the US population works on a farm. We'll adapt.

 

Well for the sake of our jobs i hope it fails

 

It could probably appear on the interstates in some form within 10 years, the technology is already developed. But I think a totally autonomous truck is many years down the road.

 

Just liberal fantasy it will never happen in our lifetime. If there was no such thing as lawsuits then yes. Or if they totally redesign our roads to be like train rails. A computer will not be able to figure out how to maneuver through a construction site. Sure you could add sensors, but they fail in different types of weather. Even if they somehow make it work, then they wouldnt want to replace such a huge workforce. There is cheap technology out now that can replace a lot of jobs but are still run by people. Especially since the breakdowns will cost more than having a person work it for $8 an hour.

 

It will be easier to advance into a "Jetson's Era" where we are are traveling in a suspended state along computer controlled "air lanes" then it will be to make trucks navigate in and out of Brooklyn or even navigate across Donner in January, driver-less. I'm not going to lose any sleep over this prospect occurring any time before the world literally comes to an end. So, there's really no sense in contemplating this idea because the powers that be keep telling us we're doomed in the near-term as a result of our own existence.