Posted on 03/30/2022 12:29:31 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
A new study by researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh offers insight of how and where automation might replace operator hours in long-haul trucking.
The study found that 94 percent of operator hours may be impacted if automated trucking technology improves to operate in all weather conditions across the continental U.S. Currently, automated testing is mainly being tested in the sun belt states due to the more predictable and less harsh weather.
Sun belt states include Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.
“Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once,” says Parth Vaishnav, study co-author and assistant professor of sustainable systems at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability. “If automation is restricted to Sun Belt states — because the technology may not initially work well in rough weather — about 10 percent of the operator hours will be affected.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dbusiness.com ...
So many unintended consequences/disasters, so little time.
the next bio weapon will fix it.
Wait. Trains, which run on RAILS, still have a driver but trucks will not? Riiiiiight.
"Automation of X will lead to Y millions of jobs lost."I was just marveling at the automated garbage trucks in our neighborhood. When I was a kid, there was a driver and TWO guys in the back emptying the cans into the truck. They used to ride along on the back of the truck.
Then the trucks got giant mashers to compress the trash so fewer trips were required to the dump.
Then the robotic arms were added to the side and they were down to one operator / driver.
Then the greenies put out multiple bins and put homeowners to work sorting their trash. That now required THREE trucks, one for trash, one for yard waste, and one for recyclables.
So we went from three guys collecting trash to a lot of automation and back to three guys collecting everything (but now all drivers).
It's the way of life.
Yeah, I really don’t want to share the road with a driverless 18 wheeler barreling along beside me, especially during a rainstorm.
John Henry died with a hammer in his hands.
Unless the Democrats and RINOs pass legislation like the "vaccine" shielding laws to protect the programmers from liability when their products kill. As they will.
Next study. "Automated instruction could leave hundreds of thousands of university lecturers and proessors without jobs."
Long-haul automated driver assist, yes. Fully automated, driverless long-haul trucking? Absolutely not.
Not unemployed for long...
A few thousand horrific accidents & deaths will curtail that absurd automated-trucking notion...
Sure, why not?
These days there aren’t a lot of stagecoach companies either.
Good, they’ll be ready to take out the marxist overlords at that point.
Of the bill professional psychopath Nancy Pelosi said:
"Today, I was proud to join @POTUS for the signing of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. With his signature, lynching is finally designated as a federal hate crime — a long-overdue action to correct an historic injustice and build a safer future our all our children."
Safer future for the children? Right now where I live, children are being hacked to death once again by MS-13 gangs in the country illegally from El Salvador. I don't see any bills requiring the border be closed.
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1508962788902948864
Parth Vaishnav Gosh! He is a bloody genius!
Deaths increase in.....
I would really want the liability for that.
I like technology as much as the next guy but I’m not 100% sold on this idea.
AI may be artificial, but there is nothing “intelligent” about it, it is intricate stimulus/response if/then programming, and when it goes wrong it is going to go Jamestown Flood catastrophically wrong.
I’m not sure you want to f around with the Teamsters...I can imagine all kinds of ‘trucking accidents’ on major highways...tires shot out, etc....you know, accidents...
Wouldn’t it be easier to build a rail line or several, and put these things called diesel/electric locomotives on tracks and have just a few operators/drivers/brakemen/engineers?
No stagecoach lines, but there are still buses, limos and personal automobiles that require the same thing, a driver.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.