According to the news self driving trucks are about to hit the road with no driver on board.
But according to this book that is not going to happen. The author says that the real purpose is to get rid of the skilled drivers and replace them with underpaid button pushers.
Will they really do that? What’s going to be the situation few years from now?
Agreed. I don’t see any chance humans will be continuously supervising trucks except as some sort of quality assurance system. And there’s no reason for the driver to be in the truck for that - let them watch via a video feed so you can have multiple people supervising and give them regular breaks/etc.
I don’t see that happening at all. An passenger jet is a special case of nasty where if you slow down or stop, you die. With a truck in the rare occasion you encounter something unexpected, just have the human go slow. Also seriously it’s just not that difficult. Right pedal to go forward, left pedal to go backward, steering wheel to turn and if you screw up, well maybe you’ll damage some panels.
So you’re thinking a truck sees that it’s about to run a red light, and transfers control to a human who wasn’t paying attention? Yeah I don’t see that happening. The truck will just slam on the brakes. And it will do it with a faster reaction time than any human driver.
Hard disagree. A snowstorm is a lot less problematic when there’s no human in the truck who needs to get home somehow. An AI truck will just park until the road is safe. If that means two days stuck in the breakdown lane of a freeway, who cares.