Self Driving Trucks, where do you see them in 5 years?

Yea.....you may see them take the jobs from the fools running nearly free for the piddly $0.90 a mile loads that are 100% drop and hook LtL style crap. But even that is years in the making and decades of red tape away. And even then....i says good luck dealing with some of the less "standard jobs" god forbid finding people who give a crap to do them remotely.

Heres a few select examples. If LOVE to see a computer deal with this. And a computer deal with the overloads or loads freezeing into the bed. Or mud and dirt or remote roads without signal that arent even on google maps sat view or even just the gps.

If you throw on the tanking economy and extreme shortage of parts thats been going on for YEARS and is only getting WORSE. Lul not happening.

 

The only way self driving works is if everything on the road is, there might be a time in the future where you are not allowed on certain roads unless you have an autonomous vehicle, it's the only way it would work is if every vehicle could communicate with each other

 

Every notice how the only places you see them (for the most part) are the SUN SHINE states..

Wonder how they deal with snow covered roads where you can't see the lines, or ice covered overpasses..

 

if they end up like this self driving car...then NO....!!!

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Not in a normal highway environment, I have seen them in operation at coal mines, these were the large dump trucks CAT 793 , CAT 797 over 300 tonne pay load, traveling at speeds less than < 50 km per hour on special haul roads basically mine vehicles only. I used to haul fuel to these mines, and would watch the operation in full swing as they would bring the trucks in to fuel up. So no these autonomous trucks still need someone to manually fuel them up.

 

My view is that self driving freight trains aren’t commonplace, and they only have to start and stop. That freight sector will transition far before trucks do.

 

For trains there are no, or very little, non-union conductors. That makes a huge difference on the viability of even attempting to make driverless trains.

 

For trains, there's one driver (for the most part), for 100 cars. Labor is a much smaller fraction of the cost than it is in trucking. In trucking, driver labor and associated costs (hiring, firing, managing, wages, benefits, supervision, the cost of the APU, sleeper, AC, etc, etc, etc) is over 50%.

In trucks, being driverless means a 50% reduction in direct costs, plus the potential reduction in accidents and savings through improvement in asset utilization, fuel economy, equipment wear and tear and similar factors.

Even if technology only replaces 30% of drivers, that's well over $100 billion in direct costs savings per year alone. That's a pretty big prize, too big to ignore.

 

Well with such professional drivers speeding through a construction zone, I think Robots RULE!!!

 

Can’t argue with that. I think they finally got rid of brakemen but they kept them around a good 50 years after they were no longer needed.

I still don’t think we will see driverless trucks become commonplace for a very long time though.