Walmart going full driverless

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  1. Trucking in Tennessee

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    Just like flying drones, I can envision a truck loaded with cameras to help deter crime against it, and someone back at the company monitoring a screen and taking some kind of action if anything goes wrong. One guy to 10 or so trucks listening for alerts. I can also sense battery packs that can be changed out rather quickly. When the car was first invented it took a long time for the infrastructure to get up to speed, but it happened. I bet women had a lot to do with that. Can you imagine being in a buggy with a horse defacating or passing gas? I am sure women were screaming get us a car. The first road trip to California from NY took 76 days. Done a lot faster now. It's coming, but it will have its growing pains.
     
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  3. RubyEagle

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    Starsky Robotics, Otto and Uber Freight would like to subscribe to your newsletter. The first two are out of business, the other stopped working on automation.
     
  4. TheLoadOut

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    Wait til some trooper tries to pull one over and the truck won't stop. Now that is going to be funny.
     
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    The national debt is $27 TRILLION dollars. It goes up $1 million every 11 seconds. That won't stop anyone. We just keep printing money.
     
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    @God prefers Diesels hit the nail on the head. Just look at trains they run on tracks and they require an engineer and a conductor and if they dont push buttons every so often the train stops and a train is the easiest thing to fully automate in the transportation industry.
     
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    I don't have a newsletter. Just keeping up with the times.
     
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    Not to slam my Cajun neighbors, but running a automated truck down by NOLA is asking for some enterprising scammers to set up a crash.
     
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    I doubt there will be any automated trucks going into cities. I used to do mail relays. We would meet at a truckstop and swap trailers for the USPS. I can envision something more along those lines. There are many DCs not in major cities.
     
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