The Volvo & Aurora Partnership

I'm completely convinced -- that ALL those tractors....work perfectly....everywhere...ALL the time....in every possible situation.



-- L

 

Too many questions....
Too many "what if" situations....
Too much potential litigation --

BUT NOOOOooooo "SCAPEGOAT" DRIVER!!!

I can't wait to watch all those Perry Mason/Ben Matlock/Denny Crane courtroom moments...

-- L

 

The only ones that have to worry are the ones who are unwilling to do more than hold a steering wheel.

Ain't gonna see these trucks do anything more than pull boxes on pavement.

 

What i see happening is these will replace box vans and reefers at best. And thats assumeing one of these dont cause a mass casualty event. Hell can you imagine someone hacking one of these full of something nasty and crashing them into say a school. Perhaps they cause a multi hundred vehicle pileup in adverse conditions. What happens when theives figure out they can throw say a garbage can into the front of one on a rural road so it stops and rob it blind. There is no driver and no witnesses esepcially if they use jammers and say set it on fire after. So much less risky crime.

Maybe they will replace drivers. But it wont be soon and it wont be as painless as the doom and gloomers seem to want to pretend.

 

I can be because by the time it affects the whole industry I'll be long gone.

 

Containers would be another market segment to add there.

I am expecting automated transfers from Ports and rail yards moving things to and from nearby distribution centers and freight forwarders to be a significant first use. Stuff like this points to that....

MSN

 

I'm willing to bet that it will work like the autopilot does on jumbo jets. The autonomous system will only be used while the truck is on a limited-access highway, and the driver will have to actually drive the truck on surface streets and in parking lots.

And there are certain kinds of trucking that automation will never be able to replace. Oversized, DoD, fuel, oilfield, construction, etc.