Posted on 03/08/2018 9:11:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
A daisy chain of long haul unmanned trucks on dedicated lane tracks is not necessary (but there are commercial interests pursuing it and would reap $$$ for the “new” industry). It’s called a TRAIN and moves cargo interstate in long unbroken lines of traffic.
It will be quite entertaining to hear the liberal tech companies explain/defend why the self-driving cars "learn" to avoid "diverse" areas.
Separate highways will never happen.
We can’t maintain the ones we have.
They’re already on the roads. As for truckers, if the “long haul” part is automated the cost of the transportation will plummet, leading to more trucks being used. Most likely, at least in the short term, we’ll still need drivers to handle the “last mile” - where more complex driver occurs. This may enable truckers to handle this many times a day but be able to go home as they’re basically doing a local job.
We’ll see - but the industry understands this is a complex change to the economics of things. What if you don’t own your car? What if they hardly ever crash? How does that impact insurance companies? Or income cities get from parking fees, when people don’t need to park?
We’re about to go through some radical changes.
“autonomous vehicles, smart cities”
More ways to make people vulnerable to massive systemic failures, and to be tracked their every waking moment in the meantime.
And yet they still smash into one another.
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