What Do You Think of Autonomous Trucks?

There here to stay. Technology won't hold back because of us. I preffer robots and ai to take over. We as humans shouldn't have to work all our lives just to maybe get a few vacations and eat scraps. And have a few good times. We were meant for more. But I don't see autonamous trucks taking over anytime soon unless they create a lane on highway just for those types of vehicles.
You can't implement it without everything else being autonamous also.
There will be jobs for us truckers for years to come. It might start eventually dwindling down little by little. So keep a clean licence so you can get the job.

 

Here we go again

 

Yaawwwnnn....

 

Worse case scenario we use the swiss model, taxation of all AI and Robot machines as citizens based on productivity. Then Humans will be on the porch. Excepting a lucky few tasked with maintaining software and robotics. We would serve the machines.

Anything more than that you go off the deep end of this bottomless subject.

 

criminals, hackers and terrorists cant wait for it, any way you look at it its gonna be entertaining lol

 

I hope I am on the jury the first time it screws up and kills an innocent family. I will award a settlement so large it will be more cost effective to employ the humans once again.

The whole idea is stupid. If you want to save money the way to do it is not to eliminate the drivers. The way to do it is use the rail for all the long distance stuff. Plan ahead better and get used to a bit more of a wait for all our trinkets.

 

Yep autonomous trucks that still need a human for backup and to watch over it. How ironic.

 

There is no denying it? News to me....
In the 10 years since Google (now Alphabet, dba Waymo) started their self driving car project we have gone from.... Cruse control to adaptive cruse control and lane keeping. That's all. Everything else is marketing hype, ala a flying car.

 

I feel the same.

How do you ticket or arrest a robot truck for 4 counts of vehicular manslaugher by CMV? Because something froze coming down cabbage in a winter freeze....

Most of my time in trucking that 70 hour week was most valued, and wasted at times when it came to paper. I feel that truckers have had the paper logs taken from them and ELD's rammed down the collective throats. Dispatch will finally have no choice but to slow things down and deal with the broken appointments or problems when people do not adequately trip plan.

For example, forum posts from drivers say I drive 11 hours into some place and there is no parking. Duh... come on, anyone with a brain knows that there IS no parking for love or money. Ive been there myself many a time. NM excepted... where you can just pull off the paved road into the land and settle.

Much of my paper logs were fiction. If I had to run ELD, I would demand a line 5 where there is freedom to decide where to put the 18 wheeler without being held to one spot and being kicked out by a shipper or reciever. I would tell them, tow me. (And they would.)

I wonder how many Rotators are in any given City that contains potentially hundreds if not thousands of truckers who have been told by shippers and recievers to get off the property? But cannot move due to ELD?