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Driverless commercial trucks will be on the roadways by 2024

Discussion in 'Everything Else (off topic)' started by Knothead, Apr 7, 2023.

  1. Jeffrey Svoboda

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    If that's the case.... i hope I'm gone by then.

    This one kinda relates.
     
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    I know of 2 companies that had many trucks on the road but eventually one cut it down to 2 and the other is 3 or 4.
     
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    I said the same thing to my wife the other night about the commercials showing the driver take his hands off the wheel and then shows it going across a bridge and the family clapping their hands to music. Then the car that parallel parks itself “hands free”. Younger folks already don’t know how to read a map or distinguish North from South east or west. SMH:doh:
     
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    Amazing how "the pandemic" forced people to get fired from jobs, which created a "worker shortage", which created "the need" for more automation in multiple industries, which will create even less jobs, which will create "the need" for socialism, and the guvment to "have to" step in.

    Where are all these people going to work? Robotic mechanics? lol. I don't think so, many can't figure out how to change a smoke detector battery.

    Sure seems the intention is to have us all depend on the guvment for everything. Then do whatever "job" they "assign" to you.
     
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    I’ve heard/read the easiest way to get vehicles to be self driving would be to do it all at once. The hardest part about integrating the tech is the unknown of what regular ol people do behind the wheel.

    I’m sure we’ll see it some day. I would welcome the vehicle driving itself to and from the weekend place that’s 2 hours each way.
     
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