landstar

VD, (Veteran Driver)
There is nothing they cant overcome. a reflective paint on the ground, or a wire that emits a RF signal that a sensor could follow, would allow truck to dock with great ease. a door opener for the trailer doors could be easily made. GPS is also to a point were in is measured in fractions down to a 1/8th inch. Auburndale Florida just announced a 42 million dollar test plant, next to University of Florida polytechnics. its not coming its here now.
I am also sorry to say all these things see threw snow.

 

Cars will be next.

 

I laugh when i hear old timers say, "no robot will ever be able to back my truck like me."

Really? In 1969 we flew to the moon, landed, and returned safely. The onboard computer they used had the same computing power of a $2.99 calculator today. Since then computer technology is between 500 million and a billion times more advanced. Do the math.

Everything is changing. The world will change more in the next 10 years than it did in the last 100 years. No more malls. Amazon has crushed retail. That is over. All malls by 2027 will have been converted to residential and commercial real estate. No more movie theatres. Short the stock of every major theatre corporation starting with AMC now. Netflix streaming is crushing them. Almost all deliveries will be made by flying drone. Every home and apartment will have a dedicated landing zone in the front or backyard like a small helipad. There will be no landscape companies. All that will be done by robots. We will have the most beautiful landscaping around our freeways. The robots will work 24/7. Wouldnt want to be a train conductor. Ba bye job. Pilots wont lose their jobs interestingly. Who would ever fly without a human pilot? I want Sully as my pilot.

In 10 years you will not take the family to Disneyworld Orlando. You will take them to Disneyworld Tranquility Sea Moon Base. Better get used to these changes. And no one will cry for your lost trucking job or mine. Just like no one cried when 200,000 travel agents lost theirs in the 90's.

 

The only thing that will save a job from future tech, is you costing less to do the job than the tech to do the same job.

 

Nothing in transportation is completely automated. Not planes, trains, trucks or ships. The human element will always be required at some point. At least within the next decade or so. Let’s come back to this thread in 10 years and see who’s right

 

The future belongs to those who can adapt to change and progress is inevitable. But I wouldn’t go looking for a job with Mr Spacely just yet ok? We’re not there yet. It’s coming but not yet LMAO

 

It's here, Walmart and others already have orders put in. correct in that there will be some jobs left, still 2/3rds if not more will be eliminated.

 

The industry will remain intrinsically the same. The basic, rudimentary and fundamental dynamic behind our industry is to move freight from point A to point B. To supply goods. Sure the trucking industry will evolve, but so will the role of the driver. He will become more tech savvy, as obsolete systems give rise to more and more technological advancements.

But the notion that automation itself becoming so pervasive as to totally replace the human workforce is what frightens so many people. It’s the very ethos that human involvement will become a thing of the past. This doesn’t stop at the trucking industry or manufacturing. Automation will cover a wide array of other fields as well. Including precision surgery, home building, Auto makers, food service, mortuary services, Hotels, Law Enforcement. The list is extensive.

Narrowing down a completely autonomous trucking industry without including other facets of the global workforce and how that will invariably affect life as we know it, is simply being intellectually dishonest.

 

You just call me dumb!

 

This is a trucker forum so yes, how automation will change transportation going forward would appear to be a central issue on this thread. The global workforce forum might be a better option for the macro view.