Should we UPS drivers fear driverless technology?

[Jumpin Jack Flash]

Driverless technology? No, current drivers should worry more about the union being disbanded. Or Carole Thome getting rid of the union and hiring cheaper drivers.

 

[BadIdeaGuy]

Driverless technology? No, current drivers should worry more about the union being disbanded. Or Carole Thome getting rid of the union and hiring cheaper drivers.

LMAO.

Good one.

 

[wilberforce15]

Trillions? Really?

Good catch.

They have trillions of total Tesla miles driven with cameras running.

They only have mere billions of miles of autopilot running that are logged, stored, and ready for analysis. Dojo will make fast work of it.

Autopilot miles vs total miles. My bad.

Either way they have an absolutely insurmountable lead in autonomous driving. You'd need a telescope to see the guy in second.

 

[BadIdeaGuy]

Good catch.

They have trillions of total Tesla miles driven with cameras running.

They only have mere billions of miles of autopilot running that are logged, stored, and ready for analysis. Dojo will make fast work of it.

Autopilot miles vs total miles. My bad.

Either way they have an absolutely insurmountable lead in autonomous driving. You'd need a telescope to see the guy in second.

So Tesla hit 1 million vehicles shipped this year.
Tesla produces its 1 millionth electric car - Electrek
This is from March, but will serve well enough for demonstration purposes.

So let's say they have 1 trillion total Tesla miles with cameras running.
That means that each Tesla ever made has to have logged 1 million miles.

I think that we need to be careful making up stats when we don't have hard facts to base them on.

 

[What'dyabringmetoday???]

And you’re not a pilot. You have no ideas what you’re talking about.

Correct- I am not a pilot. Neither are you.

 

[Est.1998]

Correct- I am not a pilot. Neither are you.

 

[burrheadd]

I know you're not a pilot cuz...


What local of the IPA are you in again??

BOOM!!!

 

[burrheadd]

Carole Thome getting rid of the union and hiring cheaper drivers.

How does she go about this ?

 

[watdaflock?]

I was hired as a driver one year ago today.
My nephew has said to me he wants to be a driver when he is older. How much longer are our jobs safe due to driverless technology?

UPS will be out of business a long time before driverless technology is to blame.

 

[quad decade guy]

Driverless technology? No, current drivers should worry more about the union being disbanded. Or Carole Thome getting rid of the union and hiring cheaper drivers.

And cheaper pilots.....fool.

 

[Fred's Myth]

The long run solution is simple. Distributed power generation. Every structure will be a power plant. Microgrids with megabattery storage like Tesla's megapack. Controlling software for grid management.

Large scale outages and vulnerabilities would be impossible.

The future involves very few power plants at all. Let alone new ones. This will gradually roll out over decades, and nothing will look the same in 2 or 3.

You’re a hardcore Popular Science junkie, aren’t you.

 

[542thruNthru]

There's plenty of money left over to save for retirement, the problem is a lot of people have a lazy ass wife who won't go get a job.

Hey! Don't forget us lazy ass husband's!

 

[Box Ox]

I posted a video of driverless cars perfectly handling construction, bicycles, multiple freeway interchanges, roundabouts, and pedestrians. You can find plenty of videos of it navigating one-way downtown streets and anything else.

People say the technology won't exist. I post direct evidence that it does. The case is closed. It doesn't matter how much Elon does or does not lie or what he owns. People are using the cars right now.

The guy landed a rocket on its own rear end. Betting against him is foolish.

We might not be decades away from companies getting robotic drivers/helpers right either. This is the #3 trending video on YouTube today.

 

[Netsua 3:16]

We fear change

 

[zubenelgenubi]

We might not be decades away from companies getting robotic drivers/helpers right either. This is the #3 trending video on YouTube today.

If only robotics were as advanced as cgi.

 

[reginald95]

I think Amazon outright buying UPS would come sooner than driverless package delivery.

 

[Operational needs]

We might not be decades away from companies getting robotic drivers/helpers right either. This is the #3 trending video on YouTube today.

Looks like it could easily run a package to a front door.

 

[Fred's Myth]

Looks like it could easily run a package to a front door.

Have you ever noticed that they never show one racing through an obstacle course?

Unless they cross a robot with a drone. THEN they'd have me worried!

 

[worldwide]

Have you ever noticed that they never show one racing through an obstacle course?

Unless they cross a robot with a drone. THEN they'd have me worried!

It's just a matter of time.

 

[Spanky250]

Agreed. I have been a single parent for many years. While I don't live in poverty by any means, I'm sure not rich.