I wonder how these trucks would fair at the hands of the Muslim invaders swarming trucks and borders?
What they really need is autonomous consumer-bots to transfer government checks to, who will in turn buy stuff from corporations!
No need for people anymore!
The cost of running a big-rig amounts to 185,000$,mostly because of the cost of fuel and the wheels that need to be replaced.
I am not against automation but this field is almost always going to require someone behind the wheel.Simply because it requires someone to be responsible for the individual truck.
Weren’t railroads already invented?
Junk science Nonsense. A self driving vehicle averages 83 accidents. Tell your truck company you have only 10 accidents on your driving record, a mere fraction. The boss will laugh at you.
Human drivers have a real history record. Robot drivers are lied about, Google et al just hide the accidents. Humans cannot hide.
Just a small autonomous gadget like lane departure is damaging truck frames and steering. The human driver wants to avoid serious potholed roads but lane departure demands damaging the truck’s steering. Hit those potholes! Smash it!
One robot gadget will have 50 defects. Overlook defects and only see a couple positive. The gadgets cause tickets and accidents.
NEVER by a truck with added autonomous robot electronics. Those trucks have hidden damage.
One ISIS IED will be able to take out an entire convoy. Are they Target’s trucks?
I got sick of being downsized & outsourced so I got my CDL A and have been OTR for a couple of months. Now this? That’s just Phuqing great.
Why does a driverless truck need 3 windshield wipers?
I am surprised that on the way to driverless trucks, we didn’t see an era of drone trucks which were driven remotely.