I'm a Truck Driver and I think Robotic Trucks will never happen AMA

[Atlrocafella]

Get your autonomous truck hacked and driven off a cliff brehs

 

[UpAndComing]

truck in article was 40,000 . Great juelzing/recovery.

You can try to "prove me wrong" all you want. Ain't about me. Just learn the hard way then

 

[UpAndComing]

Get your autonomous truck hacked and driven off a cliff brehs

Breh these people delusional. Just one sensor on the truck has to go bad for the truck to go 80mph full speed into heavy traffic

 

[GreenGhxst]

When a robotic 18 wheeler meets an edge case a lot of people could die

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Ya'll really don't understand what it means to drive a 80,000 lb truck

I'll be sitting back eating popcorn when a self driving truck is in the heavy traffic big cities. That's when destruction will happen. Ya'll love to learn the hard way

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/jan...s-gone-by-2030-basic-income-is-coming.590613/

The technology for OTR/long haul is basically here. You're correct that AI cannot yet be trusted to do urban delivery if we're still talking box trucks etc.

Finally, even with OTR most likely it will be a convoy of 3 trucks with a human operator in one that is able to take over in cases of emergency.

At the end of the day it's not the technology that will hold things back, it's that we as a society haven't yet figured out how we'll deal with the dislocation. The technology is here right now to wipe out tens of millions of employees in the fast food, banking and even transportation industries....and the companies want to do it so badly, but theyre just not ready to deal with the fallout.

 

[Atlrocafella]

Breh these people delusional. Just one sensor on the truck has to go bad for the truck to go 80mph full speed into heavy traffic

They going to learn the hard way indeed. Computers malfunction all the damn time, but sure, let’s have drivers less vehicles on the road going state to state.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

This doesn't worry you?

 

[Fuzzy_Dunlap]

We have sensors for our cruise control that are suppose to detect a car ahead of u and gradually slow down, BUT they don’t always work as they should. Imagine driving 65mph down the highway and the truck just suddenly stops because the sensor detected a shadow in the road and thought it was a car. We’re still far away from fully a robotic truck. It’s too dangerous.

 

[Strapped]

We don't even need autonomous trucks. Just have to be willing to invest the money in modernizing our rail infrastructure. High speed train capable elevated rails, advanced algorithms to coordinate rail traffic, and depots/stations in every major town. Would limit trucking to just local deliveries. every driver would be home by 5pm every night. Problem is nobody wants to invest the dollars, would probably cost trillions. but would pay for itself eventually. We already have the tech for safe autonomous trains.

True , a better rail system could eliminate or decrease truck runs from texas to georgia .

 

[Calmye]

I'm talking fully autonomous trucks. It will never dominate the industry the way people think. Will eventually be 2% of the fleet of trucks, and that's being generous


Most the people who comment on it never driven a truck before. Everytime someone comes with the same story about Robotic Trucks taking over the industry, I'm like

Not true. Only truck drivers that will be left in 2040 8s door to door

 

[havoc]

I'm talking fully autonomous trucks. It will never dominate the industry the way people think. Will eventually be 2% of the fleet of trucks, and that's being generous


Most the people who comment on it never driven a truck before. Everytime someone comes with the same story about Robotic Trucks taking over the industry, I'm like

@Wild self

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

People in the industry never believe that will be taking out until they're taken out by someone outside of the industry. Truck drivers in here saying how hard it is to drive a truck whereas some programmers who have never been in a truck are creating programs that can drive a truck

 

[Wild self]

@Wild self

All ima say is diversify your hustles and fight for Basic Income

 

[Mike_Pipeson]

Yeah.... Adverse weather and mountains..... Maybe in the future but not now. Single axel driverless sedans killing people on the streets and people think big trucks are right around the corner?

 

[Wildhundreds]

Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B valuation amid trucking recession and Uber Freight competition



Dan Lewis. He’s just come out of a big meeting with one of the top 10 shippers in the world. “Want a sandwich?” asks the 38-year-old CEO as he grabs one himself and dips into an adjacent room overlooking Puget Sound and the Space Needle.

There’s a laminated piece of paper on the table with a list of the company’s values. As Lewis begins talking about Convoy’s latest funding round announced Wednesday — a $400 million cash infusion raised at a $2.7 billion valuation — he points at one in particular: Earn it through results.

“The proof is in the pudding, as they say. The results are there and we’re leaning into the business model.”
“The proof is in the pudding, as they say,” Lewis said. “The results are there and we’re leaning into the business model.”

Investors are bullish about Convoy’s digital platform that facilitates transactions between trucking companies and shippers, despite some headwind in the form of a recent “trucking recession” and fierce competition from Uber Freight, which is doubling down on its own on-demand marketplace. Convoy, Uber, and other startups are aiming to disrupt a $800 billion U.S. trucking industry.






Here's a article from a tech company thats getting into freight brokerage..

Before you roll out automated trucks to even carry a load, you have to broker the loads 1st, not after.. Uber freight and this company is making an impact, but they have a long way to go..

This article has everything you need to determine which way truck driving is headed..