Self Driving Tech vs Job Security

Local drivers will be out first? Yeah, I’ve got some stops that I will bet you any amount of money they won’t have a self driving truck trying.

 

If the train has one and is on the system, all other vehicles on the system will know it is coming and will adjust their speed or stop for the approaching train......

 

I can see the population by that time so dumbed down that everyone will have a transponder integrated into their embedded chip (implanted somewhere in their body, probably in the brain) allowing “always on” connection to the network to prevent being run over by an autonomous vehicle........

 

Nope. The first casualty will be linehaul drivers as in triples on the toll road. Then the rise of drop yards on the interstate where the driverless will drop the load and the local will deliver to wherever...
Interstate is easy compared to local roads.
You are right though it will be at least 20 years before we see anything other than toys by companies trying to push it.

 

Maybe one day we will be sitting in retirement center and telling everyone how we used drive trucks all day and spent weeks out on the road.

I could see driver of the future or us monitoring a self driving truck. We would have take over when something happens the computers can't do. Think about this, when I started driving they said automatic truck transmission was impossible. No way it would never happen. No one could imagine a computer could shift a truck transmission and know the GPS location of the hills. The computers can also keep the air brakes on so truck won't roll back on a hill.

 

All of this is at the “truck level” which is simple. Merging a truck with no human intervention is required into the real world that exists outside the truck is quite a different matter.

Just localized power outages, construction zones and detours, and snow covered roads and signs alone will make complete autonomy impossible.

Now “auto-drive mode” in good weather and approved road sections is coming, I’ll grant you this, but that’s as far as it goes. A human will be in every truck for at least the next 50 years except perhaps in a handful of short, dedicated routes, on clear weather days ... hardly anything to worry about.

 

what about 49?

 

i say 49 is a great number...i was 49 twice.....


i stayed back in the 4th grade...

 

Agreed.

I also highly doubt the technology would be able to get 15 wide, 100 long safely up the road like I can.

With a self driving pilot car too? Forget it.