Self Driving Trucks are Coming

ELD didnt help that situation one bit.

I was in detention until 1am the other night with a guy telling me all the ways to cheat the eld to actually do your job. Oh okay. So its like an electronic version of a loose leaf paper log then.

 

It turns out cheating the ELD device is not very simple, especially this newly revised ELD law that will come into effect this year in December and pretty much affects almost everyone in the trucking industry. Some trucks, including mine, already comply with this newly revised ELD law. Many big fleets were using electronic logs before ELD was even a law. The ELD law coming this December will provide more data to DOT officers such as the mileage and approximate location of each status; errors on the device; edits made on the logs and what was the original status before the edit; and so on. Most trucks today are probably still running on the old electronic log known as the AOBRD, and they are slowly transitioning all their trucks to comply with the newly revised law before the deadline.

 

As long Johnny Sokko has the decision making. It's interesting to think all of the Resources of Japan will devolve into a machine driving by a 10 year old in the 70's but hey, it's television.

 

All the robot stuff will eventually catch up to itself and be screwed. Maybe not in none of our lifetimes but it will. Once humans are replaced with robots who will have money to buy things? If there are no jobs there is no income to buy the product the robots are producing.

 

You're right about what exactly? Remote driving of a truck or any vehicle has absolutely nothing to do with autonomous vehicles. All they did was take the driver out of the truck and stick him in an office, but there is still a HUMAN driver.

 

I don’t understand the fascination with self driving trucks. If they rebuilt the rail system properly they could move all the freight they want without running down a bus load of nuns with a robo Peterbilt.

I don’t think anyone here should worry too much about them taking your job. One big Fox News worthy wreck and the litigation courts will plunder those big companies with enormous lawsuits. You might be thinking that plenty of trucks crash every day, but without the driver to blame there is nobody left but fat cats and a jury isn’t likely to be one percenters.

 

Freight rail system simply don't make that much money. And in the end you still have to deliver last mile in a truck.
And behind all this autonomous vehicles is multi billion companies who want to make all money in the world not just US

 

You're right about the greed factor in this, which is what Gypsy is saying is that greed will bite them in the ### big time.

 

I don’t disagree that greed is the motivation, but it doesn’t take many $50 mil lawsuits to bleed away all that profit. If at any time the public doesn’t feel safe with them on the road they will demand laws, and bye bye robot trucks and all the money they spent.