Article: Self driving trucks by end of 2020

You beat me to it.

 

And every PI lawyer in the US is lining up for "Ca-Ching" payday.

 

He calls his company "Tu Simple", proving he is a clueless egghead engineer who has no idea the complexity of what he is trying to do. Trucking isnt rocket science. But puttng a rocket into orbit is easier than LA rush hour or Lookout Pass in the winter.

 

Elon Musk 2.0

More pipe dreams for investors to lose money.

I want hard data. Not more BS spewed on the Internet. Hard Data!!!

You might get some poor slob to babysit the controls for $15 an hour. But you’re not going to pay a skilled driver that much.

It’s going to have cameras watch said safety driver at ALL times. That way when one of them kills someone. It doesn’t shut the entire fleet down. Bye bye privacy

And It really doesn’t do #### by itself. Except move down the road at a high rate of speed, while the the Safety driver plays video games lolol

 

There will have to be both state and federal laws about this, it has not yet happened or been discussed.

 

First step to driverless semis is having a desktop jockey controlling the rig from an office.

Then they will outsource that job to a third world country.

Then soon after true driverless trucks comeonline they will bypass “Cindy” or “John” that have taken the jobs of current drivers.


Remember guys, $30 bucks a day in other countries is a lot cheaper then the 1k some of you owner ops make.

Essentially bringing rates down to .60-.70 cpm.

It’s going to happen.

Other options are daisy chaining trucks, and imagine 1 driver in driving from another country in a daisy chained road train?

It’s cheaper to remove the US driver right now.

As far as salaries of the drivers on the last mile, welcome to trucking.


This is how it will be done.

Driverless truck drops loaded trailer at lot outside if city and picks up loaded trailer going the other way.

Last 5-10 miles driver by a company driver on salary.

I’m betting 36k a year job where they can bring in 10-20 trailers a day, just drop and hook back and forth.

All issues will be resolved.


As far as gusts of wind that’s easily fixed as current robots have the ability to not be able to get knocked down. The same tech can be transferred over.

Can a computer make a faster decision than a human to correct things? Yes.


As far as thinking winter driving bla bla auto chains will make it easier. They do exist.

These trucks don’t have to stop other then fual and as I have said removing the sleeper = more weight can be carried. Making a tractor not stop from east coast to west coast only requires 2 x 300 gallon tanks or if the Nikola One comes out a 300kg hydrogen tank.

Making the trip will require around 50-60 hours instead of the 96-120hours for a human.


APU industries will die out.

Truck stops will continue for normal travelers but reduce staff.

And finally the industrt will stop saying

“There is a driver shortage”

 

The first lawsuit against a "driverless" or "self driving" or whatever you call it will bring all of this to a screeching halt and be the end of whichever company that has their number on the side or their emblem on the hood. "Robots can resist being tipped over" sure but how far do they jerk to the left or right before correcting? About the computer making a "faster decision," will it make the right one though, I'm real quick at math if you don't care what the answer is. Autonomous vehicles are in the same class as flying vehicles, nothing but a fantasy, sure there's a few here and there, how many accidents have they had for the very few there is? Do you really expect that number to go down as the number of autonomous vehicles goes up?

 

A trailer is not a robot. And Wyoming doesn’t give a ####.

 

The system won’t be perfect, but It will happen.

One study done by Axios shows that from 2014 - 2018

38 accidents have happened, out of the 38 one was caused by the vehicle itself, and 24 Have happened when the vehicle was parked.

Yes there are issues but it’s going to happen. If it was not going to happen then why is Freightliner working on a driverless rig along with others.


The industry is changing. Rave to the bottom and the bottom is autonomous.

 

Of course it isn’t, but a computer system can correct itself after then a human.

Specially when it can calculate faster and compensate before a human can even figure out what’s happening.


You guys don’t understand states are looking for more revenue, they will allow them to happen in return a fee per truck will be taken.