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This would've been a perfect time to switch over to unmanned vehicles. A large number of senior drivers stay on the job, but we start moving to self-driving tec
by inanutshellus 5y ago
This would've been a perfect time to switch over to unmanned vehicles. A large number of senior drivers stay on the job, but we start moving to self-driving tech for the boring all-interstate stuff.
But tech (and laws) aren't quite there yet.
- tannhaeuser 5y agoExactly my thoughts as well. We've had test sandboxes for EV trucks with overhead wiring, have been talking about autonomous driving for over ten years now - yet nothing tangible and usable has come out of it except maybe autonomous lot parking and assists.
- bombcar 5y agoOr we can just put one driver in the front of a truck with a bunch of trucks behind it, and put it on a "self driving road" made of iron rails and call the front truck a locomotive ...
- heartbreak 5y agoWe do that too. Have you seen the rail lines in and out of Long Beach or port of LA recently?
- francisofascii 5y agoIn trucking, they call that "platooning"