Huge deal made for driverless trucks by 2024

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  1. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Almost 600,000 people live there. And a bunch more In Salt lake and beyond. They going to take a truck from the northeast to to the northwest on I 40? I don't think so. Be a bunch of traffic on I 40 if all the trucks ran that way. Heck, there's already too many trucks down there.
     
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  3. WildTiger1990

    WildTiger1990 Heavy Load Member

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    Don't you guys know what is "sensor " is?
    Pretty simple to install even right now , as soon as door will be opened.
    Cops will be already on a way to that truck.
    Oh and you need to figure out where that load to put.
    Stolen phones a going to be simple locked , so you can have fun selling them
    Meat? Cmom even nowadays its pretty cheap.
    Don't forget that 99% of a trucks don't carry diamonds and gold.
    Some of them carry simple recycling crap.
     
  4. WildTiger1990

    WildTiger1990 Heavy Load Member

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    600 000 is nothing!
    STATE IS TOP 10 BY SIZE BUT one Bronx have more population that that state,
    No one will care about Wyoming in winter
     
  5. flybynight12

    flybynight12 Medium Load Member

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    Just wanted to let yall know Amazon hiring still get your start on seniority now
     
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  7. TexasKGB

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    It's Chinese ######## along the lines of "quantum computing".

    There are two things at play here:

    1: AI isn't intelligent. It's just pattern-recognition with a huge database. That works for 95% of options and isn't that hard or expensive to get right. To make it safe for that 5% of "edge cases" requires more time and money than getting the 95% down. A billion to get to 95%, then 2 billion to get to 96%, then another 4 to get to 97% safe...that's not a business model. That's a financial black hole - just to get to road ready. We haven't talked about production or sales yet.

    2: It took Earth something like 4 million years to develop a working survival-type intelligence in humans. It's arrogant as #### - and childish, if you think about it - to thing that some computers and investment can make a human-analog artificial mind.

    A platoon system? Sure. But manned trucks and tele-driving aren't AI, and don't accomplish the main goal of removing the human - and the cost of the human - from the truck.
     
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  8. Rubber duck kw

    Rubber duck kw Road Train Member

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    Even a platoon system I don't see working unless you're running them nose to tail with no room for anything to get between, at which point you might as well go full Aussie and make it a road train.
     
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  9. TexasKGB

    TexasKGB Light Load Member

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    You're right.

    I'd do that if Kenworth sold the 200E here.
     
  10. Rubber duck kw

    Rubber duck kw Road Train Member

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    Nothing a nice w900 with a c18 wouldn't handle. I like the cabover looks but they look like something my ### would trip trying to climb out of and I'd break an arm again.
     
  11. Dino soar

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    You did not figure emissions problems or electronic problems.

    Most electronic problems cost between 5 and $10,000. Most emission problems are a minimum of $10,000 and up.

    The inframe kit for the big cam is about $1,000.

    So if you have one real electrical problem and one real emissions problem you could rebuild the big cam easily 10 times or more including gaskets injectors and whatever.

    So even if you rebuild your engine every 5 years which I'm sure it would go many years longer than that, 10 rebuilds would be 50 years.

    I doubt you would get that out of an ISX.

    Unless owning electronic / autonomous whatever trucks is crazy super lucrative when they outlaw the big cam they can shove it.

    All the rest is BS and EPA PC so to them I say eff u.
     
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