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<blockquote data-quote="Jakamoe" data-source="post: 4564324" data-attributes="member: 74459">I&#039;m not sure if it will happen with UPS for a long time. The self driving would have to be perfect. Too much liability for accidents, UPS hates bad press. We would still have humans on the roads and you can look up times self driving fails that got into crashes because other humans are still on the road.Self driving still requires a driver. I don&#039;t see the US allowing completely driverless cars in our life times. UPS is still 20 years behind all the safety features that can be used now. Lane assist, automatic stops for backing and intersections etc. These technologies exist and have for a while, buy they&#039;re not on our trucks. The range on all electric vehicles still require recharges. That requires a person. The technology has gotten better but I cannot see a battery lasting 2000 miles before it needs to be recharged. Not soon anyway. What I do see UPS doing sooner is using all electric vehicles for package delivery, maybe sleepers/feeders. But they would still require drivers. Our current tech is amazing, but its nowhere near perfect. While it may be coming eventually, I&#039;m not convinced it will happen in our careers or maybe even our lifetime.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jakamoe, post: 4564324, member: 74459"] I'm not sure if it will happen with UPS for a long time. The self driving would have to be perfect. Too much liability for accidents, UPS hates bad press. We would still have humans on the roads and you can look up times self driving fails that got into crashes because other humans are still on the road. Self driving still requires a driver. I don't see the US allowing completely driverless cars in our life times. UPS is still 20 years behind all the safety features that can be used now. Lane assist, automatic stops for backing and intersections etc. These technologies exist and have for a while, buy they're not on our trucks. The range on all electric vehicles still require recharges. That requires a person. The technology has gotten better but I cannot see a battery lasting 2000 miles before it needs to be recharged. Not soon anyway. What I do see UPS doing sooner is using all electric vehicles for package delivery, maybe sleepers/feeders. But they would still require drivers. Our current tech is amazing, but its nowhere near perfect. While it may be coming eventually, I'm not convinced it will happen in our careers or maybe even our lifetime. [/QUOTE]

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