Driverless Trucks on 60 Minutes

Anyone else waiting for the chaos?

If you're under 50 I'd start looking for a new career

 

I'm still not worried. Heck, I hope most of these so called drivers are replaced! There will always be a job in trucking for those of us who want one.

 

Looked like an ad for tusimple, another Chinese tech company.

 

I think they would be great on private property where the owner can accept responsibility for any and all issues created by faulty a.i.
As for public highways...
How will they handle a rockslide? A weaving motorhome? Trailer flat? Bad u-joint? Crosswinds? Road grime on sensors? Being cutoff in icy conditions?

I'm not convinced that a computer is capable of driving with the feel for worn parts, mountain driving in poor conditions, intuition of recognizing changes in traffic such as zero oncoming vehicles on a two lane(reason to suspect stopped traffic ahead) or even the ability to pull off to assist a fellow driver.
There's quite a few reasons to question the saftey of self driving trucks in my opinion.

 

Yes they are running i10 from la to florida. Very advanced technology think i could train a retarded monkey to run that lane

 

On the subject of job loss, I think it would be massive. All of the truck stops would become fueling centers....No more CDL schools...Job reduction at DOT and DMV...The effect this would have on unemployment is almost hard to imagine... What would happen to the Teamsters ? I know that this is an extreme view but I also think that we should remember all of the manufacturing jobs that no longer exist.

 

Every time this topic comes up, and you get a company using 60 minutes to spend time on what is a press release, they confuse everyone with mumbo jumbo. It is all to sell the idea to investors, nothing more.
This graphic might make it more understandable. level 5 autonomous trucks, those with no driver on board at all are decades away, unless they have their own dedicated lanes.

 

And as good as the US is with keeping infrastructure updated and maintained, we are centuries away from having dedicated lanes except in very specific places....