THINKING TO BUY A TESLA SEMI TRUCK

This is the knee jerk reaction whenever the word "Tesla" is said. The vast majority of Tesla owners buy one because they are really amazing cars. Not because they think they're saving the environment.
Like everything in life, they make sense for some, and for others make no sense to own. Same case for a semi. Any trucks out for the night, won't make sense for a long time and will be the last. A local coca-cola fleet will be the first and would make a lot of sense.
Not only diesel fuel, but other maintenance time savings as well. Tesla owners aren't exactly concerned about the next oil change or leaky gaskets lol.

 

There are many pits and mines and places like that,, that already have electric and autonomous vehicles running around day and night.

As technology advances this will happen, and sooner than we think it will.

 

These are all ideas - not set in stone. You still have to juice up and eat - somewhere.
If this goes mainstream- Trucking unfortunately is not a choice - it’s a regulated business.

 

Again you are correct, these are ideas. Bad ideas being pushed by greenies with a political ax to grind and an absolute dearth of knowledge of science and engineering

 

Yup, I agree. Just to be clear though, by "carriers" I meant trucker drivers, not big companies.

 

My conversation is directed more to what I see in auto hauling, but I do think pain is coming everywhere, especially after midterm elections. If GOP takes over, it will be dropped directly in their lap. If Dems hold on, you'll just see more of the same: media lying and heavy marketing to cover it up. Either way, pain is coming for the middle class by years end.

 

Yup....this campaign over the recent past to shame businesses into paying employees more and more hasn't exactly panned out, considering the prices of groceries, rent, homes, fuel, etc.....shocking!

 

There is a vast difference between a controlled environment of only autonomous vehicles and that of a mix of both autonomous and human control.

Wide-scale autonomous vehicles on the public highways is really going to need all vehicles on a network communicating their location to everybody nearby. The current way of dealing with it via cameras is just an huge accident waiting to happen, as the various Tesla autopilot accidents have shown. The camera systems will get better as we get faster and faster computers, but right now, a good human is still better at analyzing traffic situations then the computers. The computers are still too reactive and not proactive.

Think of it this way. The computers and cameras are very good at predicting intercepts as in these two cars will be in the same place in this many seconds. But they totally suck at recognizing that that idiot over there is fixing to cut across four lanes of traffic.