Self Driving Trucks are Coming

Yes I did see the video. It's nothing more than lane keeping and adaptive cruise control. Once I see driverless on city streets, or in construction zones, or on wet roads I'll start to think it's coming.

Heck, if this GM expansion in Flint is any indication, it will be five years just to get the facilities to mass produce the systems needed....

 

Look on Uber in NYC , before you had to pay HUGE amount of money to get taxi cab license, now it's pretty much cost 0 dollars and 00 cent . Few taxi cab even committed suicides, someone cared? Except for families members - nope.
There is approximately 3 million truck drivers , in USA is about 300 million people , you think society will care when cost of goods will go down and it will be less accidents (if all self driving companies right)? Nope.

 

I hope you’re right. I’m tired of driving. Now when the robot cows come along I’ll really be doomed.

 

Still not scared of driverless trucks.

 

Apples and oranges. Comparing what companies like Uber and Lyft have done to the Taxi industry isn't even close to what we're talking about. Ride sharing is replacing a highly regulated industry. Some of that's good, much of it isn't. Uber and Lyft drivers are quickly discovering that having a ride sharing business as their sole source of income isn't working out very well. Their cut of of the pie after overhead is barely above minimum wage. When people stop becoming drivers because they can't make money, what do you think will happen to Uber and Lyft, and who do you think will be waiting in the wings to take over when they fail? That's right, taxi cab companies.

Autonomous vehicles will one day be on every road in the world. Just not with our existing infrastructure. You can buy all of the hype touted by the designers of this tech as much as you like, but that doesn't mean what they're selling is true. Tesla has developed the most advanced autonomous tech in the world so far, and they're not running driverless cars on the highways. Did you ever stop to think why that is? Do you know how many pending lawsuits there are against Tesla and who will insure an autonomous vehicle and how much it will cost. No you don't, and neither do they.

 

Granted that it's more difficult to land on a runway, but it's also true there's far less proximity to other vehicles. So far less opportunity to collide with anything. Commercial airplanes pretty much already are autonomous...they can take off, land, and fly all by computer...flight crews are still present as a fail safe in case the computer glitches. And finally, it won't be up to drivers to mandate a human presence in trucks. One fatal accident...if that...will have regulators and insurance carriers requiring trucks have a person onboard. Especially in this litigious society.

 

The first snowflake that hits the camera lens, it will panic brake thinking its vehicle and cause a major pile up, then just sit there. I also want to see the trucks put on their own tire chains, and drive themselves around in a few feet of snow.

 

You really think cost of goods would go down because of driverless trucks, the companies will just make more. Accidents won't go down either, I'd bet they go up significantly the first year they're widespread, if not double close to it.

 

This is why you will see driverless vehicles used in other countries, such as China, before the usa.

It will be 15 to 20 years before they have them....so 30 or 40 years before we do.

 

A lot of megas and fleet owners are investing in Honda, seeing their robot does a lot more than just drive, they can unload too.