Will we be replaced in the near future?

Self driving trucks will happen in our life times, it technically exists already.

The trend is already occurring, all the megas are shifting to autos, that's the first step.

Drivers will always be needed for backup, to open doors, fuel, etc but it will truly become a minimum wage job

 

I prefer a manual,

it's a sales pitch for the new age dependant on technologies to do it for them. I've read that Warren Buffett has a fear that autonomous CARS will ruin him but I haven't heard him say it myself.



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Auto insurance has long been a lucrative business. The industry collected about $195 billion in premiums last year from U.S. drivers. New customers are the source of so much profit that Geico alone spends more than $1 billion a year on ads to pitch its policies with a talking lizard and other characters. Yet even Warren Buffett, whose company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns Geico, is talking about the long-term risks to the business model. “If you could come up with anything involved in driving that cut accidents by 30 percent, 40 percent, 50 percent, that would be wonderful,” he said at a conference in March. “But we would not be holding a party at our insurance company.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...e-insurance-industry-survive-driverless-cars-
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http://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews...s-worst-nightmare-pitch-from-the-motley-fool/

 

I wonder how a driverless truck will deal with gps directions that sends it into a low bridge?

We already have driverless trucks, I see them every day.

 

All those took awhile to "take off"... It didn't happen over night and there were several attempts before it all came together and was economical for everyone to use.

Funny how unemployment is supposed to be so high and yet there are a hundred thousand of jobs in this one industry alone... Cut some benefits to "staying/living" unemployed and we might fix two problems at once... LOL

 

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Now I'm not saying it's not possible or not coming but there is several big things still happening because the driver is in the seat.

It's like saying, it's pretty easy to have a horse pull my wagon for me... He does all the work and all I do is set back and let him do the work...

Now, since he can do it easier than I can, just train him to do it all... Get into the harness and grab the wagon and deliver the wagon to my neighbor and return.

Yes, many things are getting us closer to a driverless vehicle but as to completely replacing the driver... Ya, might be coming but we are not there... Yet.

And when we do get there it won't be a complete evolutionary moment and poof... Drivers are gone. It will take time to make that happen.

 

Trying to imagine drone trucks operated by Swift.....

 

while I prefer a manual and have had nothing but a manual since I started, today' I'm in a gutless governed truck that tells me when I can and can't shift. it won't wind up, it'll cut out in the name of safety and progressive shifting it's frustrating at times to always be in slow mo.

 

Might be safer in that case... lol