Possible self driving trucks by 2020?

Get eveything, including doubles/triples. Later you may want a line haul job and they require doubles/triples & hazmat. Line haul outfits are such as Estes Express and Old Dominion Freight Lines and several more.

 

Self driving trucks will still require a driver in the foreseeable future. Maybe in 50 years there will be trucks without drivers....maybe......maybe it will take 100 years.

Every 10 years there are major technology advances. Remember when every trucker used pay phones. Remember the first cell phones....how big and clunky they were.
Rember in 1985 when GM came out with the first fuel injected v6 engines.....no more carburetors after that.

What do many cars have today for engines.....fuel injected v6....33 years later. My wife’s car and my pickup have fuel injected v6s.

Cars now have 9 speed auto transmissions, which is also a big change from the old 4 speed automatic.

Get your cdl.....the biggest change in trucking in the past 10 - 20 years, is having automatic transmissions. You will likely be driving an automatic transmission for the next 50 years. Your transmission might have 20+ gears.

 

Chinese are planning ahead for driverless robotic trucks and already making robotic lot lizards for their truck stops.

 

Don't forget tanker endorsement; get that one also.Most line haul companies require tanker endorsement because sometimes they haul large plastic totes of liquid chemicals in their dry van trailers.

 

Remember the "straight eight" Pontiac came out with? Wow, that was a powerful setup.

 

That looks like a mean engine.

I never drove one of those, but I did drive my dads ‘58 Oldsmobile with the Rocket V8 engine....I did fishhooks with it too much, and burned out the tranny, except for low gear. I learned fishhooks from my buddies, otherwise would never had come up with such a destructive maneuver on my own.

Who would floor it in reverse and then slam it into drive with full throttle and leave a black fishhook shaped mark on the pavement...a dumb kid.

 

What?

China, how old are you?

You need to check on that Pontiac, because ... well not to sound like I'm bashing you but that engine ended production in 1954 and was introduced in 1933.