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UPS will make deliveries using Waymo’s autonomous Class 8 trucks
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<blockquote data-quote="TheOCbaby" data-source="post: 5082266" data-attributes="member: 8886"><p>How is a smart tractor going to hook up hoses and cables, lift the landing gear, verify loads, fuel up, put chains on its tires, know where to bring a load, communicate with customers, know how to stop for DOT scales and inspections, know that its trailer or container is not running over curbs, taking out traffic signals, has flat or burning tires and dragging some little kid on a bike under it for 100 miles? Obviously, a smart, self-driving tractor would need a smart trailer or container-chassis combo as well. There are just none of those made, and it is a virtual impossibility at this point that a smart chassis/container combo will ever be made. I realize that there are some real-world scenarios for autonomous trucks to be used in limited scale applications, such as in enclosed port facilities, but even these examples require such extensive human intervention that it is barely (if at all) cost effective. They move very slow, cannot think on the fly and even the humans that control them have to take vacations and occasionally receive medical care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheOCbaby, post: 5082266, member: 8886"] How is a smart tractor going to hook up hoses and cables, lift the landing gear, verify loads, fuel up, put chains on its tires, know where to bring a load, communicate with customers, know how to stop for DOT scales and inspections, know that its trailer or container is not running over curbs, taking out traffic signals, has flat or burning tires and dragging some little kid on a bike under it for 100 miles? Obviously, a smart, self-driving tractor would need a smart trailer or container-chassis combo as well. There are just none of those made, and it is a virtual impossibility at this point that a smart chassis/container combo will ever be made. I realize that there are some real-world scenarios for autonomous trucks to be used in limited scale applications, such as in enclosed port facilities, but even these examples require such extensive human intervention that it is barely (if at all) cost effective. They move very slow, cannot think on the fly and even the humans that control them have to take vacations and occasionally receive medical care. [/QUOTE]
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