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Originally Posted by Buehler445
I run Guidance on my tractors and one thing i can assure you is the technology can outperform an operator.
I can run tractor. And that thing can kick my ass.
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Different use case. Shipping is about transporting at "best price" and keeping just-in-time inventories stocked, not operating recursive predictable farming work (in technology farming is just old hat). Sure you can cut costs by removing all humans but how much can that scale when you're dealing with interstate traffic? I don't think it would. I'd bet that there's always going to be truckers. Fuzzy logic and ML alone isn't something I'd put behind the wheel of an eighteen wheeler on I-70.
I'd predict that this is going to play out like old cattle trains. They're going to have fleets and arrays of these driverless trucks (6,8,18,32) and they're going to slip in a human "driver" to manage and herd these things through the road ways. That would make the insurance companies happy and there's always somebody to scream at and hold liable. You'll probably have a human driver up front looking for road "clutter" (shit that wouldn't be understood by the computer vision) and a guy amongst the pack wrangling the fleet and keeping an eye on alarm rates and relief teams. If they wanted too they could scale this up to some wild numbers and get product flowing without putting the public at risk of getting MaximumOverdrived. Would ruin many a truckers life but I think we're too the point where this is going to become a reality.