Self driving Trucks

No

Too dangerous.
Infrastructure not nearly ready.
Passenger vehicles too unpredictable to interact even with the most "predicting" of onboard computers.

People are the most ignorant inventions ever.
They're selfish, and they will wreck even the autonomous trucks.

It'll be 25-30 years before you see any real full use.
They can't even keep autonomous cars from killing people

My 2c.

 

All new vehicle tech should be tested on the DC inner beltway first

 

When pigs can fly,,,heck, it took them years to just figure out the automatic transmission.

 

Some of the roads are terrible. Big potholes, uneven, constant construction, always unfinished projects.

They need to accommodate the self driving trucks first by providing a safe transportation system, more modern highways with technology or whatever.

 

This is the future; first state to tackle these problems will be ahead of everyone else.

 

Everyone complains about how this job sucks, too much time away from home. But then start to throw a fit when they realize a computer is taking their jobs. Its going to help us in the long run. So i would like to see these self driving trucks succeed eventually.

 

Ok, to answer that question in a professional manner , I think there are certain places a self-driving truck could work, like across 400 miles of desert, but there's no way a self driving truck could negotiate actually delivering the goods to customers. Someone is still going to have to take it from it's stopping point to the customer.

 

HA.

We have robot cars killing people. Not just killing them but also in some cases cremating them when the batteries get punched or become chemcially unstable.

You cannot arrest a computer for vehicular manslaughter or other problems. But theoretically you could arrest the entire board of directors of a trucking company whose robot took out 50 souls in a Boston Bus Stop...

Robot trucks. HA. You sure you want that liability?

Not to mention gaming those things carrying propane for example terrorists in 4 cars placing that thing in a no win scenario and crash it really easily. Boom.

HA.

Over my dead body.

With that said.

Beer has been delivered by robot trucks 100+ miles before in the past. But you still need a human to drive it from the dock to the outside curb in the street then push a button and gtfo that thing. And hordes of state police to escort it all the way. And that is after the entire route is mapped to the millimeter level into the computer's mind.

How would you like a fine job fetching robot trucks driving them to the gate and then hopping off. That's not a job.

These forums are full of drivers tearing the robot trucks apart. Let's say Wyoming closes the interstate due to 70+ mph winds and 4 inches of ice backed by 10 foot drifts of snow covering the thing. The robot does not know anything. Crash and done.

How about a company that has 100 robots going into WY that night? All of them crash. Or need rebooting or break down etc. (Get stuck most especially.... because Robots don't chain...) it goes on from there.

Catch yourself a speeding robot because your small town 25 mph sign is rusted beyond belief. Who you gonna write the ticket to? How do you get that thing stopped? It does not know you are a police man wailing sirens and lights... sheesh. and so on so forth etc.

Finally but not last. Robot trucks would be the ultimate in disposing of the nasty costly expensive whining demanding always late humans who cannot take care of themselves. //sarcastic.

 

With the way technology is advancing in leaps and bounds, I think we're gonna see it sooner then people think....