What Do You Think of Autonomous Trucks?

Guess we can all be dot officers?
Trucks going to stop for flashing lights to get their equipment citations?
Dot out of business also?
No safety at all?

 

I think they are as wonderful as the sky-darkening mass of flying cars we've been using since 1938.

Reporters who know nothing tell an audience that knows nothing about trucks a sci-fi ghost story and everyone squeals like a little girl about it.

Too bad we cant charge the pepple asking the exact same question a sizable fee and make money off of them

 

"As far as the liability, yes, there will be accidents, and people will try to blame the autonomous truck for everything, and any company that truly does negligence will probably good bankrupt from the lawsuit, but if the autonomous trucks have a better record than humans, (which I expect), they will continue growing in useage.
They will be demonized, kind of like the autonomous bus that was involved in a wreck in Las Vegas last week, about an hour after its grand unveiling, and all the news media, including the tech news, was saying "autonomous bus crashes into truck 2 hours into its use",but actually the bus had stopped when the truck cut it off, and the truck then reverses and backed into the bus!
So totally not a problem with the bus, and the truck driver was cited for it, but most of the articles made it sound like the bus was at fault."

Did you actually look at the scene of the accident? The truck was backing into an alley to deliver to the restaurant, something he probably does weekly. He never expected an autonomous POS to pull up six inches off his bumper as he was backing down a tight alley and watching things in his mirror. If I were he cop working the accident, I certainly wouldn't have cited him. I would have put in the narrative that the autonomous bus pulled up into a backing vehicle's path contributing to the accident. Yes, the driver has a duty to watch his mirrors, but what the bus did was just plain stupid.

He didn't cut anyone off. That bus is traveling at 15 mph. The truck is almost completely straight in the alley minus the last few feet of the turn. And spare me the "he illegally backed comments" he can't unload on the street at that location. If you ever made multi stop city runs, in an urban environment, you would see that.

Maybe autonomous trucks will take my job and everyone else's tomorrow, but considering the liability and insurance costs upfront, still needing to pay a driver to monitor it before it blows our minds with its capabilities, and the fact that 90 percent of companies are six trucks or less and probably can't afford the initial cost, maybe it's not time to turn my CDL in just yet.

 

I hope this electric/autonomous technology that is trying to take over the trucking industry eventually as a whole, completely flops and backfires. I can't imagine a electric and autonomous Pete or K-Dub out there. Just won't work for me. The diesel engine needs to stay and so does the driver. If you ask me, the twin stick should stay too.

 

You all just wait and see, I don't expect to convince everyone of what is really pretty obvious, and the way people twist the facts to fit their arguments is also pretty obvious, and again, no, no one needs to be worried about their jobs for at least a few years, but unless Congress bans autonomous vehicles, they are going to be a reality very soon, as soon as the government figures out how to regulate them.

Just remember to tell me that I was right when it happens

 

Don't worry...no one belived Sarah Connor until it was too late.

 

You should be scared, I am one of the types who would be excited building and working with the robots!

I have been thinking about sending my resume into Elon Musk, since I do have a background in industrial automation and some related fields, I could be useful somewhere in his vast empire, maybe as a test dummy for a Mars shot or something... Lol

 

The elites are planning to leave this planet..so they can reinvent the ghetto on Mars...after they strip it of all it's resources.

 

I would, but we will both be dead before it happpens.

 

He needs the most help in the accounting dept so he can keep spinning the numbers to hide how much money Tesla loses on every car they sell.