Will Technology Make Truck Drivers Obsolete In 10 Years?

Unless someone invents a computer with AI ,I can't see an autonomous vehicle without a person in the vehicle.Having said that I wouldn't mind switching on the autopilot so I could get some reading done while on some of the long hauls.

 

i'm kind of wondering a few things, the biggest being paid, if you're sitting there reading a book making 30CPM then you're getting paid to do nothing, no company would allow that? or will it be not paid unless you're physically driving

 

I might be wrong, but I think that's further than ten years away. On a large scale, anyway, Google cars and Amazon drones notwithstanding. Just gotta keep an eye on developments as they occur.

 

I agree. There are many other things that will happen way before trucks become totally automated. The first automated car is still 5 years away. This is just a prototype. Freight transport is much more complicated. Yes maybe in the future, but 10 years is way off.

 

An IDIOT in a Winnebago did that a few years back... Set the cruise control and then got up to make a sandwich..... Got paid for being stupid too.

 

There may come a day, when trucks have auto pilot, there already testing a truck by Mercedes, but it will not replace the drivers, computers programs can fail, can you imagine if the computer fails and no one in the truck? There are factory's that have automated machines, but they still have employees there to make sure things run smoothly, or in case machine computer fails.

 

I remember reading about that, got a million dollars and a new Winnebago, from what I understand, Winnebago ended up putting in the owners Manuel, you can not leave drivers seat while set on cruise