APizzaWithEverything t1_ja0tshl wrote on February 26, 2023 at 12:13 AM

Because anyone with any shred of intelligence can tell you that autonomous semi trucks will never happen, there are too many variables that a computer will never be able to solve, this company, Waymo, Embark, and all the other ones are the same thing: they are a company trying to scam money out of “investors”

A computer will never be able to hook the air lines, check if there is a gap between the apron and fifth wheel, raise or lower landing gear legs, fill itself up with fuel, etc

Hell, Embark, the company that guaranteed they were gonna remove drivers from the cab within 5 years, has seen their stock drop 95% in the last year, and it continues to drop

CounterSensitive776 t1_ja2y29k wrote on February 26, 2023 at 1:27 PM

I agree, look at what happened with Argo after the billions that were injected. Self driving is a meme.

Also, the whole idea of "platooning" sounds dangerous.

[deleted] t1_ja3brad wrote on February 26, 2023 at 3:17 PM

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CARLEtheCamry t1_ja7vj5m wrote on February 27, 2023 at 2:33 PM

The company seems to be focused on platooning, which I personally think is the logical evolution of "almost self driving".

> A computer will never be able to hook the air lines, check if there is a gap between the apron and fifth wheel, raise or lower landing gear legs, fill itself up with fuel, etc

They'll just have the one driver do it for 3 trucks. That's why it makes sense, still having a person on-hand and just doing more work.

APizzaWithEverything t1_ja7yyqs wrote on February 27, 2023 at 2:58 PM

Platooning works on paper only, it is impossible to implement in the real world, you still need someone in the cab to take over if unforeseen circumstances occur, this is the same reason airplanes still have pilots, even though planes have been able to fly themselves for decades now

Not to mention, in order for self driving trucks to ever happen, EVERYTHING would have to be overhauled, docks, roads, everything, and most companies aren’t gonna overhaul their receiving areas to the tune of probably millions of dollars to make these things work.

The absolute best they will ever be able to do is MAYBE like a sort of advanced cruise control on the highway, they can’t even make GPS that works 100% of the time, some of the places I go my GPS doesn’t even acknowledge that the road I’m on even exists, and a lot of roads a GPS will tell the truck to go down can absolutely not have a truck there