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Budweiser & Otto complete world's first shipment by a self-driving truck in Colorado
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ElectricBlanketFire
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It's only a matter of time before these trucks become sentient and deliver Busweiser directly to the local dump.
I even wonder if we will end up with a network of navigators that hop on to manage local traffic on one side of a big city, then exit on the other side and let the truck get back to self-driving for the huge interstate expanses. Like ships.
BoosterDuck
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and so it begins
NOLA_Gaffer
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Excellent haha
Orbis Tabula
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hahhahaha
WaffleTaco
Wants to outlaw technological innovation.
This should be illegal. The economy is going to be destroyed if they allow this continue.
toxicgonzo
Taxes?! Isn't this the line for Metallica?
Recent memo leaked from truck drivers: "OH SHI-"
Presumably you'd remove the ability to actually manually drive it at some point, or at least make that very difficult to do.
Count Dookkake
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ElectricBlanketFire
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Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
...what?
Unless they program the truck to fight back. It will be like Mad Max meets Maximum Overdrive. Hijackers have to overcome the AI defense systems and defensive driving of a cold computer controlled AI.
Luddism is still alive and well in 2016
Don't need to take the whole truck, just get it to stop and unload the stuff.
WHY IS THERE A SIMPSONS PIC FOR EVERY-FUCKING-THING!? :lol
Truck driver I take it?
You can still rob an actual truck though. I imagine they have alarms.
What are the millions of drivers going to do when their jobs become obsolete?
Presumably the same thing coal miners, steel workers, manufacturing employees, and telegraph operators had to do.
ElectricBlanketFire
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Learn how to make and maintain self-driving trucks.
Find a new profession, like we've been doing since the dawn of civilization
You can already hijack a human driven truck
That's easy to say if you are educated or have skills but there are always people left behind when technology eliminates these types of jobs.
This is inevitable but the loss in jobs is going to be disruptive.
Yeah, I have a few family members that drive truck, and they're concerned.
Isn't Truck Driver one of the most common jobs in just about every state?
Yeah it's amazing.
fabricated backlash
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I'd imagine it will be still a lot cheaper to employ drivers. But in the short term it will improve driver safety a lot. My father was a truck driver for over 40 years, and even he agreed that it was a crazy dangerous job. He had seen so much death and destruction on the road. Having the possibility to let the truck drive itself for extended periods or during stop and go traffic would already make the life of a trucker much easier.
oh okay that was easy. problem solved.
Mookie1515
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I'm not saying this isn't impressive, because it is super cool.
But I used to commute to work by driving from Fort Collins to Denver on I-25 and it cannot even begin to be called 'mountainous.' It is more or less a straight line for 70 miles on more or less flat plains with an occasional hill. Sames goes for Denver to Colorado Springs. So don't picture this truck winding around treacherous mountain passes, because that is not the case.
STILL, super cool. This is definitely the future of long-haul trucking.
But I used to commute to work by driving from Fort Collins to Denver on I-25 and it cannot even begin to be called 'mountainous.' It is more or less a straight line for 70 miles on more or less flat plains with an occasional hill. Sames goes for Denver to Colorado Springs. So don't picture this truck winding around treacherous mountain passes, because that is not the case.
STILL, super cool. This is definitely the future of long-haul trucking.
NekoFever
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Easy to say, but manual jobs are being automated without being replaced. Anything new that would have come along in past generations will now be automated from the start, so it's not like the progression of technology is going to create new roles.
There's going to come a point where fundamental changes will have to be made unless we want an underclass of unskilled, unemployed people with no prospects of finding a job.
This is great news as truck drivers are such a danger on our roads today.
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety/data-and-statistics/large-truck-and-bus-crash-facts-2014
In 2014, 3,744 large trucks were involved in fatal crashes, 88,000 were involved in injury crashes, and 346,000 were involved in property damage only crashes.
Driverless trucks will make these stats a thing of the past.
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety/data-and-statistics/large-truck-and-bus-crash-facts-2014
In 2014, 3,744 large trucks were involved in fatal crashes, 88,000 were involved in injury crashes, and 346,000 were involved in property damage only crashes.
Driverless trucks will make these stats a thing of the past.
Brawndo Addict
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It is a fallacy to think that because luddites were wrong about the industrial revolution that technology will never eliminate more jobs than it creates.
ElectricBlanketFire
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What do you suggest when new technology makes a profession obsolete that would be a fair compromise?
This is what basic income is for
BoosterDuck
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yes, 'going to'
...shill for the Republican party? At least that's what this year's election mailers have been about.
My impression is that for the short-term, drivers will stay in the truck kind of supervising as the technology gets better and national standards are developed for autonomous trucking. Once that happens, I think they'll start making existing drivers take on other roles/responsibilities/learning new skills (god knows what that would be) while still in the cab in the transitionary period, and stopping hiring new drivers, before we get to a full autonomous system. It's going to take a while, but I think that's the best way to do it because of the sheer size of the industry.
Either way, I think in the video in OP they were very deliberate in their phrasing to ensure they don't cause mass hysteria among drivers.
Either way, I think in the video in OP they were very deliberate in their phrasing to ensure they don't cause mass hysteria among drivers.
VendettaRed07
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Truck driver is the most popular job in several US states. Not good.
fabricated backlash
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Involved does now equate to cause?
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