42 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”
Near the end of the article, the author mentions the complexity of digitizing an office. An acquaintance of mine took on the task of taking a farm supply chain- five stores- paperless. It was a multi-year task, and not anywhere close to easy.
Long-haul trucking will indeed be automated.
Sensors will check if trucks are functioning correctly, loads are balanced, and so forth. Trucks will communicate with a central command center regarding position, status, and so on.
Human drivers may still be used once trucks enter congested cities and for loading/unloading.
But the days of needing a human driver to take a truck along 1000km of highway are coming to an end.
That end will be a long time coming. The faster the technology eliminates the need for human workers, the faster the market for products the industry moves will disappear along with the reason for investing in automation.
Walmart and all of the big companies will adopt this technology and instantly all of their suppliers will comply. Every other company will follow suit or disappear, that simple. This issue is inexplicably a blind spot for Kate and team. Kate lost no sleep about any other type of automation, this one will make our world much safer, cleaner and cheaper. I suggest we all accept this change, it will be as important a change as the internet, more so if you include all of the other automation to take place in the next 20 years.
Time will tell. What I can say as an engineer working for a company that is developing key technology components for autonomous vehicles, the technology advancements are now very rapid and I find it hard to believe that in 20 years trucks will still require human drivers for long-haul routes. It is now a solvable problem, as we engineers love to say.
Walmart and all of the big companies will adopt this technology and instantly all of their suppliers will comply. Every other company will follow suit or disappear, that simple. This issue is inexplicably a blind spot for Kate and team. Kate lost no sleep about any other type of automation, this one will make our world much safer, cleaner and cheaper. I suggest we all accept this change, it will be as important a change as the internet, more so if you include all of the other automation to take place in the next 20 years.
if automation is so great, why haven’t the railroads embraced it?
Not going to happen. sensors, being redundant or not, cannot self clean or self diagnose what they cannot see. Trucks, momentum being a big component, cannot see around the corner of mountains and respond accordingly. Toss in a snowstorm, rain, mud on sensors, summer bugs, or just the glow of twilight, and you’re taking your life into your hands just being on the road with them. What follows is huge government oversight, lowering it’s speed limit, mandating inspections, upon more inspections, finally installing a fail safe, a human rider, and it becomes a dead issue before it’s even begun. The technology is not there, and no one wants to be driving in front of 30 tons of automation.
Not going to happen. sensors, being redundant or not, cannot self clean or self diagnose what they cannot see. Trucks, momentum being a big component, cannot see around the corner of mountains and respond accordingly. Toss in a snowstorm, rain, mud on sensors, summer bugs, or just the glow of twilight, and you’re taking your life into your hands just being on the road with them. What follows is huge government oversight, lowering it’s speed limit, mandating inspections, upon more inspections, finally installing a fail safe, a human rider, and it becomes a dead issue before it’s even begun. The technology is not there, and no one wants to be driving in front of 30 tons of automation.
Not going to happen. sensors, being redundant or not, cannot self clean or self diagnose what they cannot see. Trucks, momentum being a big component, cannot see around the corner of mountains and respond accordingly. Toss in a snowstorm, rain, mud on sensors, summer bugs, or just the glow of twilight, and you’re taking your life into your hands just being on the road with them. What follows is huge government oversight, lowering it’s speed limit, mandating inspections, upon more inspections, finally installing a fail safe, a human rider, and it becomes a dead issue before it’s even begun. The technology is not there, and no one wants to be driving in front of 30 tons of automation.
Sorry for the reposts. An error message kept playing every time I tried to post and said to try again.
They now have brought the labour requirement down to one person for over 100 cars – the equivalent of 200 tractor trailers with 200 drivers. Thus the potential savings are far far less.
It will happen on long haul – probably inside of five years. In Really poor road conditions which the vehicle will be able to determine the vehicle will simply pull over and stop.
Due to health and safety and cover your ass, any automated system will be programmed to stop for a wide variety of issues where a regular driver would have been able to adapt, overcome, repair, or whatnot. Managers will simply not want to expose themselves to any charges of reckless operation and will simply play the safe game. This happens everywhere automation is taking root in heavy user interactive roles. Ask your local farmer with an automated john deere combine how much downtime he has each month for a trivial software gltich or emissions sensor fault.
Trucking times will be tripled, schedules blown, and highways shut down in the name of progress.
Yes, automation will eventually come – but it will take a very, very long time to get there.
trains are an obvious test ground.
So which robot is climbing out of the cab to chain up the truck in snowy conditions?
I don’t have percentages, but I think the majority of farmers have autosteer on their tractors and combines now. You learn pretty quick that you better keep paying attention.
The onboard computer senses loss of traction and the retractable spikes are directed outward from inside the tire. The bigger question is, who stops at Tim Hortons?
Ha, it will be a looong time coming. Controlling the sheer mass of a rig alongside the absolutely unpredictable idiots in their cars requires human instinct to safely navigate. Wake me when they’ve invented the software that can do that.
Just as the author explained the ‘enclosed’ nature of factories making automation easier, I suspect we may see shuttle trucks in yards converted looong before highway rigs ever are. Don’t believe that has even happened yet.
That is already happening at the port of Los Angeles, they have shunt trucks without drivers to move the containers from the offload site from a ship to where they are stacked until they are ready to be transloaded either for delivery or rail.
As for rail, until a automated locomotive can replace a knuckle, you still need a crew. Even in yard service, despite being remotely operated, the flat switcher has a crew of 2.
Walmart and all of the big companies will adopt this technology and instantly all of their suppliers will comply.
Yeah, and the Teamsters Union is going to roll over and play dead as their gravy train of dues from 3.5 million drivers goes away.
Say, I have some prime lots in beautiful Okefenokee Georgia if you are interested.
Whenever I read these posts on SDA I think about Cliff Stoll’s book from the 90s about how there would never be such a thing as e-commerce and that, no, sorry, the internet will never replace your printed newspaper copy.
Predicting future tech is extraordinarily difficult for a lot of reasons but arguing that something won’t be automated because it’s really complicated and hard and humans are great at it isn’t much of an argument. The graveyard of occupations is littered with jobs that “only humans can do”.
It’s not entirely clear to me why many posters on here seem so hostile to the concept? There will always be a place for custom, bespoke work for a craftsman, professional, or artist, etc. But, for example, I highly doubt 100% of SDA users shop only at tailors for their clothes or only buy custom made furniture from craftsmen.
Sorry, but I believe you are talking about the automated moving and loading of shipping containers, not semi-trailers. That’s quite a different prospect than hooking up to 5th wheel semi-trailers and shunting them to and from loading docks.
I still don’t think an actual automated TRUCKING YARD has happened anywhere, but I would love to be proven wrong.
Ha, slaw, I don’t contest that automation is coming, I question the voracity of the claims that ‘It’s Almost Here!’.
Those automated trucks will be prime targets to have their loads jacked, especially the long haul trucks.
Not having a driver to kill or injure will make these robot trucks very attractive targets, yes indeed.
Exactamundo !
If you DON’T believe in conspiracies (like I sometimes entertain) like when a padlocked track switch thrown errantly, and parked trash truck at a crossing that had been disabled … just happened to derail a chartered Train carrying Republican Leaders to a conference … well …
… then you might also consider it a “coincidence” … when self driving trucks begin running off the road and causing mayhem for the trucking companies. Yeah … all the unemployed truckers will have solid alibis proving they were at home watching the Ellen Show. That they had nothing to do with it.
The onboard computer senses lack of traction, directs the rig to the side of the road and shuts it down until temperatures rise or the salt trucks make a pass. Studded tires are verboten in most jurisdictions. No computer now or in the future will be able to install tire chains. Many human drivers cannot even accomplish this task.
Many years ago I was given the task of trying to analyze someone’s job at a technical company so we could address problems that kept cropping up.
They told me that what they did was straightforward, so I sat down with them and constructed a data-flow diagram of what they did.
I took me pages and pages of diagrams to describe how all of the processes and data fit together. The person had been at the job so long, they had failed to appreciate how complex it had become.
Whenever I read these posts on SDA I think about Cliff Stoll’s book from the 90s about how there would never be such a thing as e-commerce and that, no, sorry, the internet will never replace your printed newspaper copy. Silicon Snake Oil. I have an autographed copy. To his credit, Stoll is good natured about the whole thing.
People who assume that automated systems will never be able to do the jobs humans do are right, and that’s their error. The automated systems will do things differently but produce the same end result, which is the only thing that matters.
The primary reason automating office and business processes is so hard is twofold: the process is never well defined and documented in the first place, existing largely in the brains of dozens of human beings instead of in a process document somewhere, and because automating an unnecessarily complex and ad hoc process is a stupid idea in the first place. You replace the process with something that’s automatable in the first place.
It’s a more than problematic solution. Engineers tend to like machines so much they are prone to overlooking human factors. If you aren’t looking for the unintended consequences, don’t worry, they’ll find you.
Such faith in technology.
The humble driver,shall be replaced by an autonomous vehicle.
Given the number of unknowns and variables out on the open road, I suspect the poor robot road train will be a long time coming.
very likely airborne delivery systems will succeed much sooner.
Look at the difference in hazard level.
secondly,as the progressives keep proving, humans make fine robots.
Cheap to train.
Easy to produce.
Self healing.
Common as ..well slaves.
Now the techies have been in love with the concept of Artificial Intelligence and the rise of the machines since before the computer.
Being paid to play in this area is pure pleasure for gearheads and computer geeks.
But same old, just because you can does not mean you should.
The remote operated machine is already here and being able to sit in a warm clean comfortable room and complete work in a hostile murderous environment is a growing field.
But to seek to automate the truck driver sure does indicate the automation promoters have no idea what it really takes to be a professional driver.
Face it, once your AI has learned to anticipate everything a veteran driver does, the poor thing will refuse to leave the yard.
just curious, what fcukin’ 50s sci fi pulp novel did this idea come from?
it’s actually a case of diminishing returns. any further explanation to those in charge of this digital abomination is proof they REALLY need to STAY THE FCUK AWAY FROM THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY.
time and again on the series ‘Mayday’ the issue of tradeoff between total manual pilot control and total automated control comes up.
*there is a ‘sweet spot’ as in many areas of technology. the go*&^%#*&#*#& ‘dilberts’ dont, and will, never see this.
otoh, I just found a ‘hobby’ for my twilight years 15-20 yrs hence; sabotaging all the digital crapola the geeks are foisting on us.
I told you I was a modern day luddite !!!
no prob jane. your point in fact bears repeating all over the place.
mr tulk also makes a very good point. there is a rail yard 5 blocks from my place with a sign ‘trains may be automated’ etc, ie to warn trespassers if they fall asleep on the tracks there may not be a human operator to act.
this is a key point, I got NO qualms about rail automation, because except for crossings, NO ONE ELSE but trains are on the friggin tracks.
far, far fewer ‘variables’ and what there are are very manageable and clearly identified.
right? seriously, do all the cars in a train have a ‘mind of their own’? no !!! etc etc.
exactly. absolutely SPOT ON.
aka, will the automation include a subroutine called ‘that idjit looks like he’s driving drunk’, time to call up the ‘intoxicated in proximity’ subroutine. (skilled experience human drivers do this routinely).
that will NEVER happen, thus the whole friggin FARCE will be tried, fail, and abandoned. also, MAJOR point, where in blazes is all the redundant, robust, and plentiful HYDRO supply going to come from needed to set this shyte up and engage in it? hmmmm mr dilbert?
The article is basically attacking a strawman. Yes, humans will be involved-they will take care of the robots. There won’t be many of them, and the trucks will be automated. It’s gonna happen, and it’s gonna be glorious.
automated trucks in a system that is close to chaos much of the time, no fvcking way. But as Danial Ream says, change the system to automate friendly environment, and your good to go. I think this sort of thing is so far off in the future that other technology will replace much of the trucking need, think 3D printing as just one that my help reduce trucking needs.
Another problem raises it’s ugly head as you automate, eventually as we become good at it, there will not be enough jobs to go around, and what then, more politicians and consultants?????
Hey BC, I’v worked with a sh*t load of “engineers” over time, and because most do not live in the real world, I pissed about 90% of them off:-)))
Many factories have some automation, that’s been the primary driver of job losses in manufacturing for the past 20 years: https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/58cc090cd349f914038b4e43-1200
Which is a double edged sword. On one side there’s simply less jobs. On the other the jobs that do exist are more stable and the company can be more competitive. Also a huge freaking hole in Trumps promise to bring back manufacturing jobs. Is he going to ban automation?
Wonder what will happen when some computer geek/hacker living in mommies basement figures out how to play video demolition derby with real vehicles. The nearby interstate hiway will be a tow truck drivers dream, that is if their jobs are not being done by robots too.
Wonder what will happen when some computer geek/hacker living in mommies basement figures out how to play video demolition derby with real vehicles. The nearby interstate hiway will be a tow truck drivers dream, that is if their jobs are not being done by robots too.
” This issue is inexplicably a blind spot for Kate and team. ”
It’s not inexplicable at all. I drive more than most people. A lot more.
there are trucks that don’t require drivers, they are called containers and they ride on rails.
Near the end of the article, the author mentions the complexity of digitizing an office. An acquaintance of mine took on the task of taking a farm supply chain- five stores- paperless. It was a multi-year task, and not anywhere close to easy.
Long-haul trucking will indeed be automated.
Sensors will check if trucks are functioning correctly, loads are balanced, and so forth. Trucks will communicate with a central command center regarding position, status, and so on.
Human drivers may still be used once trucks enter congested cities and for loading/unloading.
But the days of needing a human driver to take a truck along 1000km of highway are coming to an end.
That end will be a long time coming. The faster the technology eliminates the need for human workers, the faster the market for products the industry moves will disappear along with the reason for investing in automation.
Walmart and all of the big companies will adopt this technology and instantly all of their suppliers will comply. Every other company will follow suit or disappear, that simple. This issue is inexplicably a blind spot for Kate and team. Kate lost no sleep about any other type of automation, this one will make our world much safer, cleaner and cheaper. I suggest we all accept this change, it will be as important a change as the internet, more so if you include all of the other automation to take place in the next 20 years.
Time will tell. What I can say as an engineer working for a company that is developing key technology components for autonomous vehicles, the technology advancements are now very rapid and I find it hard to believe that in 20 years trucks will still require human drivers for long-haul routes. It is now a solvable problem, as we engineers love to say.
Walmart and all of the big companies will adopt this technology and instantly all of their suppliers will comply. Every other company will follow suit or disappear, that simple. This issue is inexplicably a blind spot for Kate and team. Kate lost no sleep about any other type of automation, this one will make our world much safer, cleaner and cheaper. I suggest we all accept this change, it will be as important a change as the internet, more so if you include all of the other automation to take place in the next 20 years.
if automation is so great, why haven’t the railroads embraced it?
Not going to happen. sensors, being redundant or not, cannot self clean or self diagnose what they cannot see. Trucks, momentum being a big component, cannot see around the corner of mountains and respond accordingly. Toss in a snowstorm, rain, mud on sensors, summer bugs, or just the glow of twilight, and you’re taking your life into your hands just being on the road with them. What follows is huge government oversight, lowering it’s speed limit, mandating inspections, upon more inspections, finally installing a fail safe, a human rider, and it becomes a dead issue before it’s even begun. The technology is not there, and no one wants to be driving in front of 30 tons of automation.
Not going to happen. sensors, being redundant or not, cannot self clean or self diagnose what they cannot see. Trucks, momentum being a big component, cannot see around the corner of mountains and respond accordingly. Toss in a snowstorm, rain, mud on sensors, summer bugs, or just the glow of twilight, and you’re taking your life into your hands just being on the road with them. What follows is huge government oversight, lowering it’s speed limit, mandating inspections, upon more inspections, finally installing a fail safe, a human rider, and it becomes a dead issue before it’s even begun. The technology is not there, and no one wants to be driving in front of 30 tons of automation.
Not going to happen. sensors, being redundant or not, cannot self clean or self diagnose what they cannot see. Trucks, momentum being a big component, cannot see around the corner of mountains and respond accordingly. Toss in a snowstorm, rain, mud on sensors, summer bugs, or just the glow of twilight, and you’re taking your life into your hands just being on the road with them. What follows is huge government oversight, lowering it’s speed limit, mandating inspections, upon more inspections, finally installing a fail safe, a human rider, and it becomes a dead issue before it’s even begun. The technology is not there, and no one wants to be driving in front of 30 tons of automation.
Sorry for the reposts. An error message kept playing every time I tried to post and said to try again.
They now have brought the labour requirement down to one person for over 100 cars – the equivalent of 200 tractor trailers with 200 drivers. Thus the potential savings are far far less.
It will happen on long haul – probably inside of five years. In Really poor road conditions which the vehicle will be able to determine the vehicle will simply pull over and stop.
Due to health and safety and cover your ass, any automated system will be programmed to stop for a wide variety of issues where a regular driver would have been able to adapt, overcome, repair, or whatnot. Managers will simply not want to expose themselves to any charges of reckless operation and will simply play the safe game. This happens everywhere automation is taking root in heavy user interactive roles. Ask your local farmer with an automated john deere combine how much downtime he has each month for a trivial software gltich or emissions sensor fault.
Trucking times will be tripled, schedules blown, and highways shut down in the name of progress.
Yes, automation will eventually come – but it will take a very, very long time to get there.
trains are an obvious test ground.
So which robot is climbing out of the cab to chain up the truck in snowy conditions?
I don’t have percentages, but I think the majority of farmers have autosteer on their tractors and combines now. You learn pretty quick that you better keep paying attention.
The onboard computer senses loss of traction and the retractable spikes are directed outward from inside the tire. The bigger question is, who stops at Tim Hortons?
Ha, it will be a looong time coming. Controlling the sheer mass of a rig alongside the absolutely unpredictable idiots in their cars requires human instinct to safely navigate. Wake me when they’ve invented the software that can do that.
Just as the author explained the ‘enclosed’ nature of factories making automation easier, I suspect we may see shuttle trucks in yards converted looong before highway rigs ever are. Don’t believe that has even happened yet.
That is already happening at the port of Los Angeles, they have shunt trucks without drivers to move the containers from the offload site from a ship to where they are stacked until they are ready to be transloaded either for delivery or rail.
As for rail, until a automated locomotive can replace a knuckle, you still need a crew. Even in yard service, despite being remotely operated, the flat switcher has a crew of 2.
Walmart and all of the big companies will adopt this technology and instantly all of their suppliers will comply.
Yeah, and the Teamsters Union is going to roll over and play dead as their gravy train of dues from 3.5 million drivers goes away.
Say, I have some prime lots in beautiful Okefenokee Georgia if you are interested.
Whenever I read these posts on SDA I think about Cliff Stoll’s book from the 90s about how there would never be such a thing as e-commerce and that, no, sorry, the internet will never replace your printed newspaper copy.
Predicting future tech is extraordinarily difficult for a lot of reasons but arguing that something won’t be automated because it’s really complicated and hard and humans are great at it isn’t much of an argument. The graveyard of occupations is littered with jobs that “only humans can do”.
It’s not entirely clear to me why many posters on here seem so hostile to the concept? There will always be a place for custom, bespoke work for a craftsman, professional, or artist, etc. But, for example, I highly doubt 100% of SDA users shop only at tailors for their clothes or only buy custom made furniture from craftsmen.
Sorry, but I believe you are talking about the automated moving and loading of shipping containers, not semi-trailers. That’s quite a different prospect than hooking up to 5th wheel semi-trailers and shunting them to and from loading docks.
I still don’t think an actual automated TRUCKING YARD has happened anywhere, but I would love to be proven wrong.
Ha, slaw, I don’t contest that automation is coming, I question the voracity of the claims that ‘It’s Almost Here!’.
Here is a deployment of automated trucking that seems suitable. There’s a good video at the link.
Pending reviews, Suncor could see more automated trucks
“Automation, or Perhaps Not (At Least for a While)”
“I wonder how many of the people making predictions about the future of truck drivers have ever ridden with one to see what they do?”
And much more
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2018/02/automation-or-perhaps-not-at-least-for-a-while.html
Those automated trucks will be prime targets to have their loads jacked, especially the long haul trucks.
Not having a driver to kill or injure will make these robot trucks very attractive targets, yes indeed.
Exactamundo !
If you DON’T believe in conspiracies (like I sometimes entertain) like when a padlocked track switch thrown errantly, and parked trash truck at a crossing that had been disabled … just happened to derail a chartered Train carrying Republican Leaders to a conference … well …
… then you might also consider it a “coincidence” … when self driving trucks begin running off the road and causing mayhem for the trucking companies. Yeah … all the unemployed truckers will have solid alibis proving they were at home watching the Ellen Show. That they had nothing to do with it.
The onboard computer senses lack of traction, directs the rig to the side of the road and shuts it down until temperatures rise or the salt trucks make a pass. Studded tires are verboten in most jurisdictions. No computer now or in the future will be able to install tire chains. Many human drivers cannot even accomplish this task.
Many years ago I was given the task of trying to analyze someone’s job at a technical company so we could address problems that kept cropping up.
They told me that what they did was straightforward, so I sat down with them and constructed a data-flow diagram of what they did.
I took me pages and pages of diagrams to describe how all of the processes and data fit together. The person had been at the job so long, they had failed to appreciate how complex it had become.
Whenever I read these posts on SDA I think about Cliff Stoll’s book from the 90s about how there would never be such a thing as e-commerce and that, no, sorry, the internet will never replace your printed newspaper copy.
Silicon Snake Oil. I have an autographed copy. To his credit, Stoll is good natured about the whole thing.
People who assume that automated systems will never be able to do the jobs humans do are right, and that’s their error. The automated systems will do things differently but produce the same end result, which is the only thing that matters.
The primary reason automating office and business processes is so hard is twofold: the process is never well defined and documented in the first place, existing largely in the brains of dozens of human beings instead of in a process document somewhere, and because automating an unnecessarily complex and ad hoc process is a stupid idea in the first place. You replace the process with something that’s automatable in the first place.
It’s a more than problematic solution. Engineers tend to like machines so much they are prone to overlooking human factors. If you aren’t looking for the unintended consequences, don’t worry, they’ll find you.
Such faith in technology.
The humble driver,shall be replaced by an autonomous vehicle.
Given the number of unknowns and variables out on the open road, I suspect the poor robot road train will be a long time coming.
very likely airborne delivery systems will succeed much sooner.
Look at the difference in hazard level.
secondly,as the progressives keep proving, humans make fine robots.
Cheap to train.
Easy to produce.
Self healing.
Common as ..well slaves.
Now the techies have been in love with the concept of Artificial Intelligence and the rise of the machines since before the computer.
Being paid to play in this area is pure pleasure for gearheads and computer geeks.
But same old, just because you can does not mean you should.
The remote operated machine is already here and being able to sit in a warm clean comfortable room and complete work in a hostile murderous environment is a growing field.
But to seek to automate the truck driver sure does indicate the automation promoters have no idea what it really takes to be a professional driver.
Face it, once your AI has learned to anticipate everything a veteran driver does, the poor thing will refuse to leave the yard.
just curious, what fcukin’ 50s sci fi pulp novel did this idea come from?
it’s actually a case of diminishing returns. any further explanation to those in charge of this digital abomination is proof they REALLY need to STAY THE FCUK AWAY FROM THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY.
time and again on the series ‘Mayday’ the issue of tradeoff between total manual pilot control and total automated control comes up.
*there is a ‘sweet spot’ as in many areas of technology. the go*&^%#*&#*#& ‘dilberts’ dont, and will, never see this.
otoh, I just found a ‘hobby’ for my twilight years 15-20 yrs hence; sabotaging all the digital crapola the geeks are foisting on us.
I told you I was a modern day luddite !!!
no prob jane. your point in fact bears repeating all over the place.
mr tulk also makes a very good point. there is a rail yard 5 blocks from my place with a sign ‘trains may be automated’ etc, ie to warn trespassers if they fall asleep on the tracks there may not be a human operator to act.
this is a key point, I got NO qualms about rail automation, because except for crossings, NO ONE ELSE but trains are on the friggin tracks.
far, far fewer ‘variables’ and what there are are very manageable and clearly identified.
right? seriously, do all the cars in a train have a ‘mind of their own’? no !!! etc etc.
exactly. absolutely SPOT ON.
aka, will the automation include a subroutine called ‘that idjit looks like he’s driving drunk’, time to call up the ‘intoxicated in proximity’ subroutine. (skilled experience human drivers do this routinely).
that will NEVER happen, thus the whole friggin FARCE will be tried, fail, and abandoned. also, MAJOR point, where in blazes is all the redundant, robust, and plentiful HYDRO supply going to come from needed to set this shyte up and engage in it? hmmmm mr dilbert?
The article is basically attacking a strawman. Yes, humans will be involved-they will take care of the robots. There won’t be many of them, and the trucks will be automated. It’s gonna happen, and it’s gonna be glorious.
automated trucks in a system that is close to chaos much of the time, no fvcking way. But as Danial Ream says, change the system to automate friendly environment, and your good to go. I think this sort of thing is so far off in the future that other technology will replace much of the trucking need, think 3D printing as just one that my help reduce trucking needs.
Another problem raises it’s ugly head as you automate, eventually as we become good at it, there will not be enough jobs to go around, and what then, more politicians and consultants?????
Hey BC, I’v worked with a sh*t load of “engineers” over time, and because most do not live in the real world, I pissed about 90% of them off:-)))
Many factories have some automation, that’s been the primary driver of job losses in manufacturing for the past 20 years:
https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/58cc090cd349f914038b4e43-1200
Which is a double edged sword. On one side there’s simply less jobs. On the other the jobs that do exist are more stable and the company can be more competitive. Also a huge freaking hole in Trumps promise to bring back manufacturing jobs. Is he going to ban automation?
Wonder what will happen when some computer geek/hacker living in mommies basement figures out how to play video demolition derby with real vehicles. The nearby interstate hiway will be a tow truck drivers dream, that is if their jobs are not being done by robots too.
Wonder what will happen when some computer geek/hacker living in mommies basement figures out how to play video demolition derby with real vehicles. The nearby interstate hiway will be a tow truck drivers dream, that is if their jobs are not being done by robots too.
” This issue is inexplicably a blind spot for Kate and team. ”
It’s not inexplicable at all. I drive more than most people. A lot more.
there are trucks that don’t require drivers, they are called containers and they ride on rails.