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They way I see it, companies just need a place outside the city where drivers can enter the truck and do the last part (or leave the truck and get the next one)
by motoboi 10y ago
They way I see it, companies just need a place outside the city where drivers can enter the truck and do the last part (or leave the truck and get the next one).
This may work similar to ports, where a pilot come to the ship to navigate the port area.
- jamiek88 10y agoOr even better they park and the trailers are then hooked up to human driven, electric tugs that aren't realistic for cross country highway travel (range/density of battery) but are for under 50 mile trips into the city.
- Spooky23 10y agoRobot trucks turn the economics of trucking company into something more like railroads, which having been eating the lunch of trucking for awhile now.
- ghaff 10y ago>railroads, which having been eating the lunch of trucking for awhile now Right. Which means that a lot of trucking isn't especially long haul already which in turn means that taking people out of only the highway portion isn't necessarily the big win that a lot of people assume it could be. If you still need truckers around the endpoints, it doesn't necessarily make sense to take them out of the middle (given other advantages to having a human operator). Of course, good assistive systems can still be used to improve safety.
- Spooky23 10y agoThat's why I worry about this area of technology, especially in the context of the history of AI in the past. The hype factor is extreme, but there's very little domain expertise at play. I have a relative who is a trucking regulation consultant. It's not some trivial business... there are a lot of moving parts.