The world’s first self-driving big rig
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The Freightliner Inspiration is the world’s first road-ready self-driving truck, and Daimler let us take a ride in one outside Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Like with many other self-driving vehicles, the ride isn’t too exciting on the surface — that is, until you realize that a 20-ton machine is doing all the driving for you. You wont see these on the road any time soon, but they’ll bring a number of benefits when they get there. Self-driving trucks will cut down on emissions and save fuel. Most importantly, they will make the roads a safer place.
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When there is no apple in the sigt, the verge actually makes good reviews and videos.
Good luck picking up a 3PL load from an independent supplier in Chicago, navigating to a local weigh station to verify weight and loading, back into a warehouse in Brooklyn, and find a way to fool the public into redefining workfare.
Long time? Don’t think so.
2018 is my guess.
I love it
As usual, people comment before watching the video.
This ‘automated truck’ still needs a driver, cool your jets.
Bit weird using Russia Today footage of UK roads at the start of this.
I bet The Verge was mad when they saw a Samsung tablet running the truck and not an iPad.
It sucks cuz it had galaxy tab instead of ipad air
-verge
But there is no ipad?!
Wonder if one of these things have a feature for Maximum overdrive. Lol
1/3 of a million isn’t “nearly 1/2 a million”
Autobots.. Engage!
This will cause more accidents because the drivers are allowed to loose concentration and then are expected to take over in all the tricky situations. Unless it is 100% autonomous it is not safe.
They don’t mean the truck will literally drive itself from point A to point B and deliver freight, that’s impossible, but this is great for reducing accidents do to fatigue.
The computer should carefully analyze the entire image and not only line.Now it is possible.
this needs a driver
It’s absurd that they think safety is improved when they tell the driver, half asleep and not paying attention, to take over in the most difficult conditions.
simpsons did it first
LOL 333 000 is almost half a milion crashes according to you. You lost your credibility..
I was kinda hoping it transformed and was here to save the planet.
Soon robots are gonna run this world. The rich will be richer and the poor will be poorer.
This is soo stupid and even more dangerious becaise what about snow and other factors plus it is also takeing jobs away from people i drive a truck and you all say that trucks are the reason roads are unsafe most of the crashes are cause by all you 4wheelers not giveing us room and cutting us off it might drive its self but that is not gonna make it stop quicker breaks are still the same people it takes alot to stop a fully loaded truck. And for everyone that want technology to do everything for you yall are just lazy pretty soon no one will ever beable to do anything for there self because everyone is getting so lazy
real KITT is coming 🙂 hahaha!
But… If lou farigno is a pancake, what does snoop doggs cat bark like? I know is not just the camelon war feathers talking here, am i right Robert Downey Jr. ? Lol always cricket tail when you aint got no orange juice, i guess thats just life. #runninthruthe6withmywoes
that thing will never work in canada the whole rode is white
is this a joke? so the driver has to be aware the situation all the time but he or she doesn’t drive, so it makes it even more careless when ”driving” and i still remember the 90s when they said in 2000 gonna be flying cars, we kinda stopt developing i mean a selfi stick and Internet on our phones is not much progress.
I can’t wait for this technology to become better and more common! 😀
Just keep in mind, this is going to hugely effect our economy/society. There are 3.5 million truck drivers, and millions more jobs that support those truck drivers. In a decade or so, when these self-driving trucks are perfected and all those people become unemployed, including taxi drivers too, the effects will be obvious. We’ll have to re-think how we deal with unemployment, when technology makes more people obsolete.
I hope they make this trucks computer hacker proof wouldn’t be good for someone to hack the computer of one of these trucks that was hauling a load of fuel or Haz-mat.
LIES , LIES, LIES . OVER 85% OF CAR / TRUCK CRASHES ARE CAUSE BY THE CAR . TRUCK DRIVER FATIGUE IS NOT THE NUMBER 1 CAUSE . NUMBER 2,3 4 OR 5 CAUSE OF CAR /TRUCK CRASHES .
THIS CORPORATION IS USING FEAR AND HAVE NO TRUTH IN THEM GO TO THE FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ADMIN. FOR THE STATISTICS ON CRASHES.
THE MOTIVE IS JOBS ! WITH THIS DANGEROUS SELF DRIVEN VEHICLE EMPLOYERS DO NOT HAVE TO PAY HEALTH CARE, PAY ROLL TAX , UNEMPLOYMENT TAX , WORKMAN COMP TAX, AND MANY OTHER TAXES.
THERE IS NO SAFETY BENEFIT AT ALL .JUST MORE AMERICAN JOBS DOWN THE GREEDY CORPORATE TUBES.
TRY USING THIS SYSTEM IN A REAL LIFE SITUATION LIKE, RUBBERNECKING IN RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC IN HOUSTON,TX OR DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH THE STUPIDITY OF OTHERS ON THE ROAD. WILL THIS SYSTEM REACT QUICKLY ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN A SAFE SPEED? OR WILL THIS SYSTEM BE ANOTHER DISTRACTION TO THE DRIVER?
the way I see it it is pretty much impossible for there to one day be no driver because someone has to back it in to unload someone has to fuel it up and someone has to get it going again when it shits itself on the side of the riad
This is an excellent opportunity for truck drivers to get their MBAs while their truck is on autopilot on the interstate.
yeah saver and unemployed
“Verge” so much better than “Android authority”.
we try to do the same..
Ugly asf
10 or 20 years
but when it bursts .…
driverless tehnology will be unstoppable
Breaks and cars…This is all about take people out of the equation and increase profit margin. Problem is same under skilled people will still be working on them.
the first job killer.
How about if the road is closed can this car take detour?
Imagine this…https://youtu.be/-2ml6sjk_8c with 40 tons.
Lol, the leading cause of these accident 85% of the time is a 4 wheeler
It’s not a Truck without the driver
And the first time one of these slams into a school bus or mows down a load of pedestrians because of computer failure the insurance companies will bail like the 82 Airborne and the freight company as well as the software company will be sued into oblivion.
This is 3 years so out of date.
Bad news for autonomous vehicles.…two Youtube videos some might find well worth watching on this subject.….“The driverless car scam” & ” The terrifying truth about self-driving Vehicles”
0:30 voice say .5M writ say .33M which isit
Can I purchase one that’s all I want to know
This isnt safe I cant see this getting approved to be on the road
Junk