Autonomous trucks delivering the mail

I don’t think the pay could be less than minimum wages. With two people inside the truck they still have
advantage over or equivalent of 1 conventional driver. This might work in desert areas in the beginning.

 

one is a engineer, so they can spot problems as they happen, the other is to take control if things go wrong.

 

I read a different more detailed article about this. One of the two is like an engineer or something. The other one is a driver. Also said their eventual goal is driverless. It said they were going to make five trips from Phoenix to Dallas. It will only stop for refueling and change of driver. They said drivers will be kept HOS compliant.

 

No supervisor? Not good at all.

 

With the wrecks happening this will probably be pushed since they are taking the thinking drivers out of the equation. The new field may be technicians that can program, just think of all the parking spots that might open up since soon those self driving trucks will have no hours of service. The "driver" will become a fixer of all things like lights...oops not going to need those either.

 

This will really screw up traffic in metro areas. What about road construction or detours?

 

So a autonomous truck is going to pull into a fuel station, then the humans get out and fuel the truck up and are going to have to walk into the station to get receipts and since they are still going to be HOS compliant do they still have to do the 30 minute break in the same time periods?

 

I would be surprised if it does that much. Likely it will be like the beer truck in Co a year or two ago. The driver will be the one getting off the interstate, not the self driving part.
The way I read it is it's simply adaptive cruse with lane keeping. No different than a few of the other publicity stunts announced.

 

Ans when the truck is out in middle of desert the driver facing camera is on the computer? Not going to be some good scenes in them dust storms that blow up suddenly.