No human truck drivers in 10 years?

I only clicked on this thread to see who's posts were deleted.

 

I'm pretty sure railroad engineers ain't strapping anything down when the locomotive shows up at a shipper. It won't be hard to adapt the model to trucking when the time comes.

 

It will never happen!

 

Its already happening.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car

 

Atleast they dont smell human........

 

I would never buy a car that drives itself. There are some of us that still enjoy driving. I know I do.

 

Be careful about using the word never. Way back when, there were lots of people who said they would never have a toilet inside their house. After all inside the house is where you keep your food and eat your meals. Many felt that to have a toilet in the same building would be uncivilized. I think we all know how that turned out.

 

Good point.

 

I'd prefer not to, as you're completely incorrect...

If and when the automated system fails, you will still need a Class A driver behind the wheel to take over and operate just as they would in standard driving. Just because the #### thing *can* drive itself doesn't necessarily mean it always *will* Have you ever owned an Ipod? Those things are automated, and they're buggy as hell too. If they can't even perfect a way to listen to mp3s, do you really think we'll ever see an errorless automated commercial vehicle. Not in my lifetime. So the class A driver will indeed live on. And thrive, I predict. Because anything that'll reduce stress and bring ease of use to the industry is certainly a PLUS over all...

 

Caterpillar did a mine in South America 30 years ago with self driving off road dump trucks. It worked great in that setting. Production went up. Life of the equipment went up by 30%. I don't know how long they ran that project since I was not personally involved. I just took training classes from one of the techs involved years back. I think we are still needed since somebody got to take the fall when something goes wrong.