What could possibly go wrong?
Posted on 04/27/2016 12:26:09 PM PDT by JOAT
thought that was called a Train...
“thought that was called a Train...”
I mean... I find this brief statement hilarious.
Just wait until we have automated consumers.
Once again luddites making up charges. NOBODY except the anti-auto vehicle crowd is talking about banning drivers. NOBODY. Every time a luddite puts that out there they are LYING. Stop the luddite lies.
“Shipping a full truckload from L.A. to New York costs around $4,500 today, with labor representing 75 percent of that cost.”
I doubt that. If a driver makes $60,000 per year, that’s $1,100 per week and it doesn’t take a week to make that run.
Driverless trucks would be a dream come true for hijackers and for the sport of truck wrecking.
Didn’t I read somewhere recently that when they tried a driverless car in the U.S. they found that the dividing lines and road markings that the car needed to navigate and keep in their own lane were in such poor shape and were missing in so many cases that the car couldn’t safely get from point A to point B? Why should trucks be different?
Ya think?????????
Driverless trucks are a nightmare for hijackers, there’s nobody to point a gun at.
Will not survive First Contact with the Teamsters.
They safely go places. Close to 2 million driverless vehicle miles have been logged on US road. Crappy road maintenance causes them some problem, but they’re working with it, much like we do.
I’m not holding my breath on this and if they really wanted to make it efficient they send everything by rail.
What could possibly go wrong?
Rail needs trucks at both ends.
I wonder why that is. When I was growing up, that seemed like a great job to have. Maybe that's because of that Burt Reynolds movie. The one with the CB radios and all those truck-driving songs.
Ha!
In all honesty, if road lines were the only barrier, then that would be fixed via gov’t mandate. The ultimate test would be safety while driving at night...in the rain or snow.
That said, my own suspicion is that we’re probably less than 20-30 years away from having enough total highway support to make this happen universally.
“slow-moving driverless trucks could be a hazard for drivers.”
Trains of slow moving driverless trucks running close enough to each other to draft. Don’t forget that part.
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