Will self-driving trucks be an issue for truckers

Discussion in 'Questions To Truckers From The General Public' started by Steven42000, Dec 26, 2018.

  1. Pumpkin Oval Head

    Pumpkin Oval Head Road Train Member

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    Just today, 60 Minutes interviewed an expert on this very question....the use of Artificial Intelligence by computers. He predicts in 15 years that chefs, waitresses, and truck drivers will be replaced by computers.

    Professional truckers may or may not agree with that opinion.
     
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  3. WildTiger1990

    WildTiger1990 Heavy Load Member

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    OTR drivers can kiss their job good bye in 5 years.
    Locals folks around West and East mountains might have something around.
    Will infect about 1mil truckers, and a lot of mom and pops gas station around USA.
    I will say that by 2030 we will face what USA was facing during great recession 100 years ago , will be heck of a celebration!
     
  4. SteerTire

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    Nothing like useful idiots in the news. Being interviewed by useful idiots.
     
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  5. Farmerbob1

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    When they fully automate more than half of all trains, I will believe that a significant number of automated trucks are no more than 50 years in the future.

    On a similar note, fusion scientists have been telling us that commercial fusion power plants are only 20 years away... since the 1960's...

    Scientists and engineers who are pushing the boundaries of modern technology and physics frequently see the world in a 'special' way. A way that funds their research projects.

    You might, indeed, be able to replace a short order cook with a robot. Possibly even a waitress. But if cook and waitress bots are designed competently, the most damage they could do to someone is a bad tasting meal or some bruises.

    A truck robot is going to be hauling tons and tons of product down the road, and there is absolutely zero possibility of making that operation risk-free. Even if you build special roadways for robot trucks, they will still approach closely to other traffic from time to time, or encounter employees at shipping and receiving facilities.

    The question is not whether or not we can engineer robot trucks. It's whether or not they can be engineered safely enough that the public will trust them sufficiently to allow them on the road.
     
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  6. Flat Earth Trucker

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    I really wish people would wake up and realize our government doesn't want us to own vehicles and drive. This is the reason for automated vehicles.

    How easy would it be to assassinate someone who just hopped in a driverless Uber?

    Think logically.
    Reconcile.
     
  7. Farmerbob1

    Farmerbob1 Road Train Member

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    The reason for automated vehicles is that engineers need to 'improve' products in order to keep getting paid.

    Capitalism is sometimes annoying, but it's still the only thing that works worth a ####.
     
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  8. Lav-25

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    Simple answer- not any time soon. Maybe, and its a big maybe, terminal to terminal in certain places, but for 75 % of trucking , no. Gas hauling, milk pickup and delivery, same for chem and oils, .

    When it ever does be come common , i'll be long gone !!
     
  9. Lav-25

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    ... and in a year a robot can do the news reporters job !!!!.....
     
  10. Flat Earth Trucker

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    Would you call the high fuel taxes states like Pennsylvania, California, Oregon, and Washington "capitalism"?
    That which is subsidized survives.
    That which is taxed dies.
    With the advent of autonomous vehicles, this is simply another step in taking away more of our freedoms.
    With this exchange in mind, I decided to look at some of the deaths caused by driverless cars. In particular was the vehicular slaying of that poor girl in Tempe, Arizona. I say slaying because I regard this incident as a homicide, not as an accident or mistake. Why am I sounding so extreme? Because what is being perpetrated against us is extreme. You might not view losing your privilege to drive as extreme, but I most certainly do, and I won't apologize for it.
    Back on point about the murder in Tempe. What I learned from reading this article is that this dismounted bicyclist was struck in a crosswalk at 40 mph.
    If you've ever driven in Tempe on Mill Avenue, you know that both sides of the road during daylight hours are loaded with pedestrians and bicyclists being as how this area is near the ASU campus.
    Mill Avenue is chalked full of cafes, convenience stores, motels, parking garages, and restaurants.
    Behind Mill Avenue on both sides are apartment buildings of significant size, thus providing a steady stream of pedestrians at any hour of the day or night. In addition to this, the consistent warm weather ensures constant pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
    I've driven my own personal vehicle in the day and night along Mill Avenue and know that driving at 40 mph is too fast considering the amount of traffic on Mill Avenue. So for a autonomous vehicle (or anyone) to be driving above 25 mph on that street is dangerous. People were in charge of making the decision that this autonomous vehicle went 40 mph knowing full well Mill Avenue is loaded with pedestrians and other vehicles. Someone set the parameters of how fast this vehicle could drive, where, and when.
    This is why I call the killing of this poor girl a murder.
    When an autonomous bus crashes and kills 40 people, will you consider that an unfortunate need for engineers to "improve" products in order to keep getting paid? Will that, too, be an annoying side effect of capitalism?
     
  11. pmdriver

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    I question why they design these driverless contraptions to be still riding on blacktop roads since most of these loads are repeats. They can build tubes and be like the machines at the bank, just stick it into a tube and it goes to the other end, heck even launching rockets to the place would work or drones.
     
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