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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Little Eddy, post: 5191206, member: 138805&quot;]OMG...75% of a 4500$ load goes to labor? Leaving 1125$ for fuel? No maintenance cost or tires or other associated cost factored in?</p><p>Besides some suspect percentages the idea that any degree of automation is waiting around the corner for an American publics acceptance is absurd. The amount of variables alone has this tech pipe dream years away from even use in the vast expanse of the west.</p><p>The only reason this continues to get traction on this forum is links to tech articles that are written because a tech author needs material to write about.</p><p>If ALL road traffic was automated then there would be a possibility for this technology to work but having a mix of automated interactive with driver controled traffic is a long way from reality.&nbsp; Oh sure, someone is going to post about this experiment in Europe or the recent trials on the open and unpopulated I-80 through Nevada but the reality of this gaining any significant advance or changing the current paradigm is at best a technophiles&nbsp; &nbsp; wet-dream fantasy.</p><p>Relax, no one is going to take your job; at least it won&#039;t be expensive advanced technology. Rail service, maybe...but seriously,&nbsp; what carrier is going to pop for an automated system that would cost 10 times what a low spec Freightliner sells for, and then pay for an expensive tech to service the system when there are mouth breathers who will take the load for a cpm that averages out to less than minimum wage?</p><p>Signed, former mouth breather.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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