Snack
Well-Known Member
For a part-timer with hopes of one day driving feeders, this is not comforting news.
Teamsters Union Tries to Slow Self-Driving Truck Push
Teamsters Union Tries to Slow Self-Driving Truck Push
How much longer until feeder drivers are a thing of the past?
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GameCockFan
Well-Known Member
It's only a matter of time. I wouldn't recommend transportation as a future career
Article suggests that mass roll out is at least a decade away and even then the most likely application is long haul which for us means sleeper and mileage runs will probably be the first affected. A lot of what we do is making local pickups, taking airs to airport, bringing loads from local sorts to the hubs and bringing preloads from the hubs to outlying centers. Human drivers will be around for the foreseeable future.
Now you tell me...
silenze
Lunch is the best part of the day
Not with coyote logistics pulling all our loads
Or, "Been hit by a truck with a human driver after the company negligently failed to replace him with a much safer autonomous vehicle? Give us a cha-ching ring!"
Not saying that autonomous vehicles are at that level yet. But there may come a day when insurance companies and the law dole out punishment for not utilizing them.
Jackburton
Gone Fish'n
Will UPS make pension contributions to Sanford and Son retirement junkyard on behalf of the driverless trucks?
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
I wonder how they drive in snow?Will UPS make pension contributions to Sanford and Son retirement junkyard on behalf of the driverless trucks?
Jackburton
Gone Fish'n
It never snows.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
Self driving trucks replacing Feeder drivers or truck drivers in general? I don't think so. Too much is at risk. Too much liability and law suits towards companies. Being a Feeder driver myself there are a lot of maneuvers that an automation can't do. I don't care what anyone says but an automation machine can only be an automated at a certain borderline degree and that degree won't pass the trucking world. Just no. I wouldn't want my family sharing a road with an automated tractor trailer and I'm sure many more will be against it. One wrong move by that automated machine, it will be going straight to court writing a settlement checks.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
The robots are coming for the package drivers' jobs too.
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
That's the R-G'er 10,000 model, no?
Over 70
Well-Known Member
I think self driving anything is much further than the hype articles suggest. Much much further.....so far I'm not even concerned.
It's one thing to have a few successful tests, it's another thing to have millions on roads shared by humans....it would be a nightmare. Mark my words.
It's one thing to have a few successful tests, it's another thing to have millions on roads shared by humans....it would be a nightmare. Mark my words.
Scottyhawk
What is it? A brown box. Duh
You will not see true self driving trucks in our lifetime, the will be semi autonomous still requiring someone behind the wheel
dookie stain
Cornfed whiteboy
You think I give a damn about some driverless truck? Helllllllll no
Catatonic
Nine Lives
UPS will require a Union worker to blame if anything goes wrong ... so ... probly ain't gonna happen.
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