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I expect it will be much like harbor pilots pulling ships into crowded ports: the tricky stuff will be handled by highly skilled humans, the easy stuff (long hi
by LeifCarrotson 5y ago
I expect it will be much like harbor pilots pulling ships into crowded ports: the tricky stuff will be handled by highly skilled humans, the easy stuff (long highway miles through cornfields ok flyover states) by AIs.
There will be a few exhaustively mapped and highly trafficked main routes where the truckers will carefully pull out of a warehouse and drive to the onramp, get out, and take a shuttle back to the warehouse. The truck will drive itself continuously for the next 30 hours/2000 miles, and pull itself into a rest stop outside the target city, where another trucker will drive it the remainder of the trip.
- Ekaros 5y agoI wonder how hard and how much more expensive it would be to build a warehouse designed for automated trucks. Seems like it shouldn't be too much trouble to have closed off sections where only automated trucks are allowed for most of the time. And then they would feed to special access roads designed to be safe and easy to navigate.
- aembleton 5y agoWhat if there is an accident along the main route and a diversion is set up down side roads that haven't been exhaustively mapped?