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Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois
I'm just guessing here, but it seems to me that the 'over the road' part of driverless trucks would be the easiest part to tackle - but the delivery - backing into a dock after negotiating the parking lot seems like the hard part. A lot of delivery points can be a tricky, requiring a skilled driver to get into. I can imagine a robot truck locking up in some situations.
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There's an industrial park near my house that gets a ton of semi traffic. Several of the businesses, however, simply don't have adequate room for the trucks to easily back in to the docks, which results in them going through slow, painful street blocking maneuvering gymnastics. Maybe a driverless truck would be better at it, but somehow I doubt it.
And I simply have a problem with enormous Skynet trucks driving all over the place. As if dealing with these goddamn things in traffic isn't bad enough already.
But I guess it's something I probably won't have to worry about it. By the time this shit gets to be commonplace, I'll likely have shuffled off this mortal coil.