Posted on 11/14/2017 3:11:58 PM PST by bananaman22
While Googles Waymo company has taken center stage for bringing self-driving cars to roads, autonomous trucking may make it to the mainstream first.
Silicon Valley startups, technologists, and venture capitalists see great potential in the technologyeven more than most traditional trucking companies are supporting.
CB Insight, which tracks venture capital, reports that companies will place about $1 billion in commercial truck autonomous systems this year, 10 times the level of spending three years ago.
Goldman Sachs economists predicted that trucking will shed about 300,000 jobs per year starting in about 25 years. That may begin sooner than anticipated if automated trucking clears government hurdles and technology innovationsand becomes widely adopted by trucking companies.
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“effects” - 4th Amend
def: items of property
aka Car
FR challenges me to review definitions.
I found your post to be abstruse in the extreme. Could you elucidate?
I found your post to be abstruse in the extreme. Could you elucidate?
As I said in post #30, hijack was the wrong word. It would be easier to loot an autonomous truck because it can’t legally be defended with lethal force.
Of course I am. I wouldn't do anything illegal.
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