Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived?

rsoto2

No. Saved you a click. "No one really thinks Level 5 autonomy (full autonomy in all situations with no remote assistance) will happen any time soon"

bayarearefugee

All those truckers being automated out of a job, guess they should learn to code!

1970-01-01

That extrapolation is doing a lot of work here. Ignoring all that, you arrive at "No, the revolution is not here." https://xkcd.com/605/

osculum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

delichon

> How is it that commercial aviation, surely a much more technically challenging endeavor than ground transport, is relatively safe, while commercial trucking is responsible for more than five thousand deaths per year? The simple reason is that commercial aviation is highly regulated, and the overseeing government administration is relatively well-funded. The roads on the ground are vastly more complex than the highways in the sky, and the density of human pilots a few feet away is vastly higher. At the same time ground transport is handling ~600x more tonnage and ~6x more drivers per ton. To say the death difference is simply regulation ignores a lot.

iammrpayments

If an autonomous truck runs over someone, who goes to jail?

BatchJob

I just found out my state is letting autonomous semi trucks drive on its highways. I think the years since we've seen teslas kill entire families have been rare but have happened will pale in comparison to what these trucks will do to us. I feel like given the danger these vehicles represent that their location should be published publicly so that humans can avoid the highway when they are near and possibly plan alternative routes. Also, I believe that part of the "plan" is to eventually once the technology hits it limit of effectiveness (cant get any better but is still deadly), flood the highways with enough of them and autonomous cars to scare humans off the roads. There will be a tipping point where humans wont feel safe driving on the roads with these vehicles in large enough numbers (because they arent). At that point we will be paying taxes for robot highways, and to fund liability protections for tech companies.

fulafel

Allowing fossil powered autonomous trucks would be a huge lost opportunity for mitigating the climate disaster and related megadeaths.

rdtsc

> non-domiciled” commercial drivers licenses How is that a thing? They don’t have an address but can get a commercial driver’s license. What do they put on the form for an address “patch of woods by I-95”, a PO box?

xbar

Trucking never had a labor shortage. It has institutional underpayment of non-union foreign workers to skirt US labor law.

feverzsj

They need autonomous roads first.