Bigger trucks anyone?

AModelCat · May 11, 2025

Arctic_fox said: ↑

Sadly as we have seen over and over and over and over and over again ad nauseam. Some corpo critter who has likely never had his ### in a seat is going to get a presentation. He is going to love the idea. And they are going to push it with us being the guinea pigs. If the convoy wrecks it will 100% be on that driver and the next iteration will have measures for exactly that situation. Wont help the driver or company that went up in flames over it. But who cares, corpo critters will just pull the handle on the golden parachute and be to a new company in a week.

While i laugh at anyone who thinks these things will replace every human in short order. Your going to start seeing it in the next few years and in the next decade or two it will be common. That said i said its more likely then the nonsense in that video for a reason. Someone else already covered the logisitics side of things.

But we will see what happens. I just cant see these autotrucks replaceing humans entirely. I can see them replaceing humans for LTL and such though. Can also see the drone approach for final mile as well. Truck gets itself to where it needs to be. Operator takes over and backs it in and moves to the next rig.

Its why im not worried. Even if these things are common there are to many jobs that will require a human even if just for liability.
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I say we hold the government and the companies pushing this tech responsible for everything.

Arctic_fox · May 11, 2025

AModelCat said: ↑

I say we hold the government and the companies pushing this tech responsible for everything.
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No arguments from me.

TripleSix · May 12, 2025

Arctic_fox said: ↑

Sadly as we have seen over and over and over and over and over again ad nauseam. Some corpo critter who has likely never had his ### in a seat is going to get a presentation. He is going to love the idea. And they are going to push it with us being the guinea pigs. If the convoy wrecks it will 100% be on that driver and the next iteration will have measures for exactly that situation. Wont help the driver or company that went up in flames over it. But who cares, corpo critters will just pull the handle on the golden parachute and be to a new company in a week.

While i laugh at anyone who thinks these things will replace every human in short order. Your going to start seeing it in the next few years and in the next decade or two it will be common. That said i said its more likely then the nonsense in that video for a reason. Someone else already covered the logisitics side of things.

But we will see what happens. I just cant see these autotrucks replaceing humans entirely. I can see them replaceing humans for LTL and such though. Can also see the drone approach for final mile as well. Truck gets itself to where it needs to be. Operator takes over and backs it in and moves to the next rig.

Its why im not worried. Even if these things are common there are to many jobs that will require a human even if just for liability.
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I’ve seen solar flares KO GPS systems. I’ve seen blade trailers with the rear steering calibrated to the 5th wheel go haywire because of things like sprinkler systems and garage openers, and charging system surges. And you’re right, regardless of what happens, driver is at fault. The first person that gets thrown under the bus is the driver. So if a driver is leading a convoy of autobots, and one of the bots goes haywire, driver gets charged.

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