Will self-driving trucks be an issue for truckers

Commercial airliners have been automated for 50 years, and we still have airline pilots.

 

I already replied why airlines can't use autonomous planes, cause first compare to stupid cargo no one give a crap, planes carrier people. And 2nd in case of a problem plane can't simple stop in a middle of an air, trucks or cars can .

 

Actually trucks can’t either unless you want those ambulance chaser lawyers up on your rear whenever a stupid 4wheeler crashes into one because he was on his phone.

 

Trust me create algorithm to make truck pull on a shoulder in case of a problem is a peace of cake

 

And what if there’s no shoulder?

 

Trucks are 80,000 lbs of missile in the middle of a field of crunchy humans in other vehicles. While you are right that a truck has more options to stop than planes, planes don't have to deal with construction zones or debris on the interstate. Both have to deal with weather and I'll say that wind turbulence is equivalent to potholes.

Seriously though. TRAINS still mostly have engineers operating them, and they run on rails, with no cars around them except at R/R crossings.

 

Planes dealing with traffic, idiots who landing to fast or to slow... Again there is a system on planes for example to prevent head on collision, it send message to one plane go up, and to another to go down, why do you think it won't be able to communicate same way in air.
80 000 looks a lot untill you will realize that single midsize 737 plane weight about 175,000 and carrie enough fuel to burn half a small town to the ground , with truck not so much.
As for rail, again rails does not make that much money as trucks business do, and don't forget that 99.9% of stores don't have railload tracks

Same what you would do, turn on emergency lights and crowls 5mph till computer will see enough space, cars now can figure out in a city where enough space for them to park and can back up by themselves, you think computer won't figure out that also?

 

Those examples you gave? They are the reasons why there are pilots on planes. Pretty much the same reason drivers will always be on trucks.

Computers can only deal with what they have been programmed to deal with, and no programmer will be able to cover all the potential chaos and stupidity that planes or trucks will encounter.

 

I don’t know how well the robots will deal with traffic challenges, but human drivers are prettyyyy prettyyyy prettyyyyyyy bad. I had a trucker almost take me out the other day in a traffic snarl. He just went berserk and jumped out of his lane on my right and forced my flatbed to jerk out of his way into the open left lane next to me, otherwise, crrrunch! Now, I was paying attention, and I happened to know that space was available. But a robot would have known 100%. A lot of truckers wouldn’t have known. And no robot would have done what that jerkwad trucker that lost his mind did in the first place.

It was funny though, other truckers were letting me know that guy was acting nuts for miles. It’ll be interesting if a HAL9000 truck tried killing people and driving like an idiot. Or nods off behind the wheel and flips itself into a ditch

 

Yes driverless trucks are a real threat. Just remember when all us drivers are standing by the road begging, don't stand too close or a driverless truck may malfunction and hit you.
I think we're all sunk. Lets just sit in our living rooms and eat popcorn and wait on the trucking jobs to collapse around us. Or we could go to fast food work I guess. Idk guys the future is definately bleak.
Ok seriously just go get in a truck and go to work.