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Consider how trucks are used in the mining industry. Go back five years and these trucks would have be driven by a human driver. Today any new mine will be de
by jussij 6y ago
Consider how trucks are used in the mining industry.
Go back five years and these trucks would have be driven by a human driver.
Today any new mine will be designed to use autonomous trucks and many of the older mines are being retro fitted to replace those human driven trucks:
https://www.amsj.com.au/autonomous-mining-truck-safety/ https://www.amsj.com.au/autonomous-mining-truck-safety/
Now replacing drivers for trucks driven on public roads is much harder to achieve, but even here systems that reduce the number of drivers required are well advanced:
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/daimler-trials-convoy-connected-autonomous-lorries https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/daimler-trials-c...
- AntiImperialist 6y agoConsider pilots in an aeroplane. Most of flying is automated but there are more pilots than ever. There will never not be pilots. Same will happen to trucks and trains. You may see some sort of fully automated cars in some small cities in the next couple of decades. But trucks? Nope! Not happening.