Future of Trucking - Automation concern

I don’t think automation will ever take off. With thought of terrorist hackers hacking into the most secured companies who spend millions to not get hacked imagine a terrorist hacking acouple hundred fuel tankers. That’s pretty scary.

 

We shall see... meanwhile I'm not going to have my head stuck in the sand.

 

I say 5-10 years they will be here!! Drivers better save money and really look into another profession. It's going to happen!!

 

The first time a driverless truck is involved in an accident, everybody from the company who owns it to the company who built it is going to seriously rethink this idea. That giant Werner lawsuit from awhile back, that'll be peanuts compared to what they can get when they can sue the trucking company, the manufacterer, and anybody else who they can think of.

 

I think we will start seeing them on the road in 5-10 years, but their focus will be very specific. For example, almost entirely on freeways and on certain states and regions only. It will take more than a decade extra before driverless trucks really start taking over most of the long haul routes. The long haul route approach has already been revealed by several companies invested in this technology. This approach also makes the most sense as a starting point for big trucks.

I don’t think accidents will stop driverless technology. It’s a flawed argument. The solution is very simple: enough insurance coverage. As long as driverless vehicles outperform the general public in terms of overall safety, it will be fine.

 

My younger brother sent me this same link telling me I will be out of a job soon because of automated trucks.

I replied that I won’t be worried , because by the time it happens i will be living on Uranus .

 

No way. Until they get rid of internet terriost it won’t happen. Big billion dollar corporations can’t even keep hackers out of their systems. If I was a big company I’d be terrified to have auto trucks. Once they get hacked and have a big event it could send them to the poor house. I don’t see it happening.

 

Traffic lights can be hacked as well, along with a long list of other things. There is no perfect device. There will always be a flaw to it, one way or another. Cars, aircraft, spacecraft, the internet, etc. all have serious and deadly flaws. Lots and lots of deaths are caused by them every single day. It’s about weighing the bad and the good. Most of us would agree that these technological advances have helped humanity more than not.

 

It's about weighing the good and bad, ok where's the good in a tanker with 50k lbs of propane or gas being able to be hacked and driven into a school?
A malfunctioning stop light is just turned into an all way stop, everybody knows that, or at least should.
Cars can be hacked but what do you do with one remotely carjacked prius? To hijack a plan with a computer you have to be on board don't you, that puts the number of idiots willing to do it substantially smaller I would think.
Self driving vehicles just seem like a really horrible idea to me simply from a liability standpoint, I can't believe there's manufacturers lawyers not saying take a big step away from those.

 

How about turning all traffic lights green? How about driving a rental box truck into a big city full of explosives? I can go on and on. Nobody is losing any sleep over that (yet). Also, you don’t seem to be understanding what I meant by “weighing the good and the bad.” Almost every single invention out there has a good and a bad. Take weapons, for example. Most of us would agree they are necessary for protection. At the same time, weapons in the wrong hands can and have caused a lot of harm. Collectively, in the US, we have decided that the benefits of owning weapons outweigh the risks. Driverless technology can greatly minimize traffic deaths. Sure, in the wrong hands, it can be deadly, but so can a drunk behind the wheel.