Posted on 05/21/2019 4:41:55 PM PDT by Innovative
The U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday started a two-week test transporting mail across three Southwestern states using self-driving trucks, a step forward in the effort to commercialize autonomous vehicle technology for hauling freight.
San Diego-based startup TuSimple said its self-driving trucks will begin hauling mail between USPS facilities in Phoenix and Dallas to see how the nascent technology might improve delivery times and costs. A safety driver will sit behind the wheel to intervene if necessary and an engineer will ride in the passenger seat.
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Maybe someday they’ll have self-delivering electronic mail that no one has to handle or deliver and that no one will need to get a pension from.
Well, isn't that just the most typical government job situation! Instead of a job requiring one person who actually does something, we'll employ TWO people who do nothing.
Maybe they can test Kramer’s rubberized containers, too.
Cowards should run the NorthWestern states.
Show us robot trucks driving through snow, ice and mountain passes. Show us the video.
PO staff aren’t going to give up their pension paychecks just yet.
Well, isn’t that just the most typical government job situation! Instead of a job requiring one person who actually does something, we’ll employ TWO people who do nothing.
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Instead of self driving meaning no driver, it means one extra.
Maybe someday they’ll stop using First Class mail to subsidize the low postal rate SPAM that clogs my mailbox every day and is stuffed into my mailbox before the prioritized postage class mail.
Make the advertisers pay full rate and watch the delivery time of stuffing mailboxes rapidly improve.
What a great plan. Replace one employee with two who will most likely do nothing. I wonder how they will actual stay awake.
I’m almost always the driver. When I was teaching my kids to drive, I said the first two weeks are sheer terror, after that I was poring through the manual to see if I was required to stay awake.
I remember my driver ed instructor fell asleep once I got on the freeway
Have you considered that this is a test program and ultimately that would not be the case?
Could work.
Yep, am OK with a “test” as long as “TuSimple” is footing the bill for any $ amount above the regular contract price.
the Butterfield Trail, route of the first transcontinental mail contract, ran from Memphis, across Arkansas and Oklahoa, thence across 900 miles of Texas across New Mexico and Arizona to southern California and up the valley to San Francisco.
The trail was southerly to avoid snow and such. The mail was guranteed in 21 days. The primary reason was established by banks needing badly to transmit various documents across the country. Butterfield owned American Exoress and contracted in Califirnia with Well Fargo. .
The Butterfield Trail is marked and makes a great route to follow on a road trip across America
Ought to help pay for their RED bottom line. Who pays for that anyway?
How do you get a driverless truck to drive onto the portable bathroom scales the Weight Men carry?
Hijackers are just waiting.....
I’m chust an old Pennsylwania Dutchman from Sinsheim and it vunders me onest how a truck with a pilot and an engineer-person is driving itself.
Vat they need the two fellars for already?
I’m chust an old Pennsylwania Dutchman from Sinsheim and it vunders me onest how a truck with a pilot and an engineer-person is driving itself.
Vat they need the two fellars for already?
Lawyers are just waiting.
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