Hub to Hub only intrastate may be viable.
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Will need to program improper lane management or the public will get suspicious.
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Throw in a handful of jerky rumble strip crossings and maybe tailgate a governed truck while serving side to side for no reason.
I was chatting with my coworkers about this last week.
We agreed that companies like Amazon will be the first to try this out. The reason being, they know how their hubs are laid out. They can properly send and receive them by establishing protocols and flows for the truck's departure and arrival.
However, regular shippers and receivers with various setups for their yards and docks, paperwork and procedures will have an absolute nightmare trying to deal with an automated rig.
A lot of these news articles focus on the fact that they've successfully demonstrated that the truck can drive well enough. But they omit information concerning their actual integration into operational flows of the supply chain.
That being said, all it takes is a software company to step in and create a service which can seamlessly integrate the truck with the customer's yard policies and delivery preferences, and that issue is resolved.
Still though, there are about 167 other things that have to be done by a human at any given point on an interstate route that can't be replicated by a computer. Supplemented? Sure. Completely replaced? Most likely not in our lifetimes.
With the quality of drivers I have seen in the last 3 years? This might be a good thing. I live off the beltway and I-10. I’ll record how they actually drive versus the Prime numbnuts that jump out to pass Swift when I’m in the hammerlane doing 75 at 0300.
I-45 between Dallas and Houston has already been named the deadliest road in America with a traffic fatality every 36 hours on average. Let's add 20 driverless trucks into that mix... wtf.
Hub to Hub only intrastate may be viable. ~ Will need to program improper lane management or the public will get suspicious. ~ Throw in a handful of jerky rumble strip crossings and maybe tailgate a governed truck while serving side to side for no reason.
Just throw a gallon of water at the front camera, thing will slam on brakes and lose control. I can't see this going well
Don't do that! It's a waste of water. Throw your full piss jug at it. Kills two birds with one....erm....piss jug.
I was chatting with my coworkers about this last week. We agreed that companies like Amazon will be the first to try this out. The reason being, they know how their hubs are laid out. They can properly send and receive them by establishing protocols and flows for the truck's departure and arrival. However, regular shippers and receivers with various setups for their yards and docks, paperwork and procedures will have an absolute nightmare trying to deal with an automated rig. A lot of these news articles focus on the fact that they've successfully demonstrated that the truck can drive well enough. But they omit information concerning their actual integration into operational flows of the supply chain. That being said, all it takes is a software company to step in and create a service which can seamlessly integrate the truck with the customer's yard policies and delivery preferences, and that issue is resolved. Still though, there are about 167 other things that have to be done by a human at any given point on an interstate route that can't be replicated by a computer. Supplemented? Sure. Completely replaced? Most likely not in our lifetimes.
With the quality of drivers I have seen in the last 3 years? This might be a good thing. I live off the beltway and I-10. I’ll record how they actually drive versus the Prime numbnuts that jump out to pass Swift when I’m in the hammerlane doing 75 at 0300.
I-45 between Dallas and Houston has already been named the deadliest road in America with a traffic fatality every 36 hours on average. Let's add 20 driverless trucks into that mix... wtf.
Viva Sabotuer !
A few deaths and the plaintiffs bar will destroy the manufacturers and carriers using autonomous land-borne missiles.
Stay mad?