Impact of automated driving on Trucking industry

There wont be any impact the government wont allow it they would lose all the money they make for ticketing drivers for log books ect.

 

Yeah I have... worked on control consoles for same, and very familiar with many AF pilots involved. Pilots are required for take-off, target acquisition/identification, weapons delivery and landing.

You get around to reading about Chicken Little yet?

 

If rail is so slow then why is UPS and FedEX using it for there ground shipments?

Granted it is slow compared to a plane.

The old fruit express trains have made a large comeback. These trains have priority over all other trains including Amtrak.

I know several shippers that work up the price two ways. The first way is truck and the second way is truck to rail to truck and the cheapest wins unless it is a hot load.

The mega carriers know they are competing against the rail roads. If they raise there prices the railroad would get the freight.

 

It's a QF16 target drone... they're flown from take-off to destruction by a pilot under radio control.

 

Nothing new

It takes two pilots to fly an airplane that normally is flown by one.

They gave been using F4 since 1997

Before that the control pilot was in a chase plane.

I seen to remember that one of the Kennedy boys died in an accident involving a remote air craft back in WW2

The truth is if the military is still using remote pilots than this idea is decades away from reality.

 

It's a giant radio controlled airplane (like you get at the toy store, only bigger) under 100% human control.

 

Way easier to put the freight on trains for the majority of the trip and use local drivers for the short bit on each end. Doesn't mean it will happen that way.