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UPS will make deliveries using Waymo’s autonomous Class 8 trucks
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<blockquote data-quote="HFolb23" data-source="post: 5086028" data-attributes="member: 55674"><p>I don’t see autonomous trucks ever being more than just next level cruise control for the vast majority of UPS feeder employees. The feeder driver sets them on autonomous once you enter the interstate and then reclaim control before the exit. Just like how autopilot in an aircraft works, pilot takes off and lands, the autopilot handles the other 90% of the flight. In terms of UPS, I see them more likely to just be used as contractors. Any local/shop with any strength doesn’t allow contractors on property anyways, meaning the bigger problem now is making the shifter handle disconnecting/connecting the trailer on someone else’s equipment. It wouldn’t take much convincing for me to believe that autonomous trucks are safer than some of our contractors.</p><p></p><p>“Cameras and the internet can solve any problem you can suggest might happen with these” Well what happens when the truck can’t connect to the internet then? There are still places along highways in this country where there is no cell service, are they all going to be satellite connected? What happens when you lose satellite reception? What happens when a camera lens gets dirty with road grime or it gets hit my something and takes out a camera? Does it just sit there as a paperweight until someone comes to rescue it? How will it put together a set of doubles or triples? Surely you’ll say it’s all been taken into consideration by people much smarter than myself, but those people don’t work at UPS. UPS isn’t like most trucking companies. Our tractors struggle to just connect the IVIS to the tractor via Bluetooth, it’s going to be a very long time before UPS has whatever smart technology it needs to support owning these trucks in any wide spread capacity. This company can’t even get the robot oversized package trains to work right inside the hubs. </p><p></p><p>Nobody has mentioned the union yet either. The world can have all the technology it wants, doesn’t mean the union isn’t going to fight replacing its members with automation. The only feeder driver I’d have any type of concern for would be sleeper teams because they’re more along the lines of traditional OTR drivers and we don’t own their tractors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HFolb23, post: 5086028, member: 55674"] I don’t see autonomous trucks ever being more than just next level cruise control for the vast majority of UPS feeder employees. The feeder driver sets them on autonomous once you enter the interstate and then reclaim control before the exit. Just like how autopilot in an aircraft works, pilot takes off and lands, the autopilot handles the other 90% of the flight. In terms of UPS, I see them more likely to just be used as contractors. Any local/shop with any strength doesn’t allow contractors on property anyways, meaning the bigger problem now is making the shifter handle disconnecting/connecting the trailer on someone else’s equipment. It wouldn’t take much convincing for me to believe that autonomous trucks are safer than some of our contractors. “Cameras and the internet can solve any problem you can suggest might happen with these” Well what happens when the truck can’t connect to the internet then? There are still places along highways in this country where there is no cell service, are they all going to be satellite connected? What happens when you lose satellite reception? What happens when a camera lens gets dirty with road grime or it gets hit my something and takes out a camera? Does it just sit there as a paperweight until someone comes to rescue it? How will it put together a set of doubles or triples? Surely you’ll say it’s all been taken into consideration by people much smarter than myself, but those people don’t work at UPS. UPS isn’t like most trucking companies. Our tractors struggle to just connect the IVIS to the tractor via Bluetooth, it’s going to be a very long time before UPS has whatever smart technology it needs to support owning these trucks in any wide spread capacity. This company can’t even get the robot oversized package trains to work right inside the hubs. Nobody has mentioned the union yet either. The world can have all the technology it wants, doesn’t mean the union isn’t going to fight replacing its members with automation. The only feeder driver I’d have any type of concern for would be sleeper teams because they’re more along the lines of traditional OTR drivers and we don’t own their tractors. [/QUOTE]
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