I rode a semi-autonomous truck at CES 2019
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Daimler is ready to put its driver assistance tech on the road with a semi-autonomous big rig, four years after the first prototype. We got a test ride in the truck where we watched it drive itself and pull off a pretty wild emergency braking maneuver.
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But what about the panel gaps?
It might be a grueling job, but it’s still a job
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congratulations! good on you!
Difference compared to Tesla — its on the marked right now and not somewhere in 2025.
VOLVO IS still available
It’s coming in 2224
This is not self driving…this is a joke.
Wait for Tesla to show us what’s really exciting
You literally know nothing about trucking! This video is trash! When you have driven a truck for any extensive time and have earned the position to talk about this please come back with something worth watching.
This same level of autonomy was a <$1k option on my Honda Fit, it’s standard on many cars. I think it should be mandatory for $200k+ semi trucks that can flatten any car on the road.
What a great video. Perfect editing, camerawork and presentation. Thanks!
Dime-ler ? It’s Daimler as in daem-ler.…
That’s a pixel like notch on the windshield of that truck. Hate to see it.
Be honest Verge. How much did Daimler pay you?
Advisory condition of autonomous maneuvering should benefit the offensive drivers, since, twice the semi truck drivers have attempted to run down my family.
We are always in favor of technologies that help keep our drivers safe, the public safe, and increase the overall well being of our drivers. Are professional truck drivers going to be replaced by self-driving trucks in 5 years? The answer is no. If that ever happens, and it’s a BIG if, that is in the FAR FAR future.
Massive — 1981 , producers will understand…
Where is the self driving in the video??
1st thing there are no thousands of accidents on trucks comparing with cars and 2n thing how can you trust self driving technology that much to put in a big semi some thing goes wrong with that it will be a disaster. More errors are on technology not on humans. It’s gr8 but don’t trust it 100%.
So when a bunch of these things are platooning down the road all I would have to do is stand in front of them and they would all come to a stop they would all come to a stop and back up against each other for miles and miles and miles me and 6 people could probably shut down an entire city doing that that is a great idea I hope they do it I know one thing it’s going to be a lot easier to steal Freight nowadays
All those saying good bye truckers are millennial half wits who have no idea the dozen plus factors which will keep drivers in demand another 25 too 35 years. A.I will replace surgeons , doctors , cashiers, security guards , wear house workers and even computer programmers before truckers. A.I will be self teaching and replace just about everyone in the next 50 too 100 years. So enjoy your false sense of job security ✌🏽🤪
A grueling job that pays well in a world that wants to only pay price of electricity
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I drive a truck for a living and I can tell you that the amount of regulations we have and the amount of bad infrastructure we have this will not happen for another lifetime
There are about 60 million truck drivers in America, should of added that in ur of how many households they will be crushing soon.
This is like a joke compared to what Tesla has…
It’s a long way before you won’t need a driver, first of all just like Tesla, nobody will want to take a responsibility for that vehicle, because if freightliner, Volvo or any other brand will sell a vehicle and say its self driving and doesn’t need a driver, anything that will happen it will be a lawsuit and millions of dollars will be lost. Second thing means no driver, who will open doors and close and who will move tandem and who will back in, strap the freight do pre trip inspection and after inspection, who will fill up the truck, clean all sensors yeaaa. LTL drivers take a minute to 15 min on one stop, that means backing in to a dock, getting your paperwork, going in the dock, opening the door, gets unloaded and back in the truck, and getting to next stop.
So that means in order to do all that you’ll need to pay people to have someone to inspect the truck at least twice a day, park that truck, open/close doors, on and on, it will end up costing more then paying that driver.
He screams Bernie socialist
80% of all semi accidents are the cars fault
When are where can some buy one of those.?
Most people who drive out in the world today, don’t need to be driving anything with wheels.
it would be great to get on a highway hit self drive then chill in the back .…
I guess this means the future is looking pretty bleak for lumpers and lot lizards.
Most of these accidents are caused by 4 wheelers, so there needs to be more taught at the DMV level
The guy is clearly hired by freighter. Not an objective review.
Simpsons predicted this
Yang2020!!!
All these self drive are done in perfect weather, and isolated environments. Lets see more realistic situations like winding mountains roads, construction, traffic jams and so on.……Planes in the sky, trains on track not too many variables that can happen. Yet they still needs pilots and conductors, and you know why? Liabilities, too big of an issues to ignored, not worth it financially to be cheap to get rid of humans in charge. Planes has been on autopilot for decades, yet pilots still land and take off, same as conductors on trains. Trucking have way too many variables to ignored, and way too dangerous too be cheap. All this technology is to help drivers too be safer, regulations special interests groups ect.…..the list goes on.
Driving an automatic semi truck is easy. It’s how you back a loaded trailer that counts. 😆
Lets see that this autonomus can run in ice roads
I worked hauling salt water to the disposal in the oilfield and also hauling flowback to disposal. Is an automated truck going to know which tank to pull, go up the catwalk to gauge the tank, hook up the hoses, turn on the pump and know how many barrels to pull? Will it be able to find a site that was recently occupied, be able to navigate around a rig and know which frack tank to pull from again being able to hook up its own hoses? If a strap is coming loose on a flatbed load inroute will it be able to see that and stop to tighten the strap? How will it check load securements inroute? Will it know if a load has shifted and if so what will it do about it?
TRUCKS CAN RUN 24/7
unlike humans which have to stop after 11–14 BEC OF HOURS OF SERVICE
Companies can get 100X more loads done with the DRIVERLESS TRUCKS
the profit margin is HUUUUUGE $$$$$$$ many truck drivers will be CUT
TRUCKS CAN RUN 24/7
unlike humans which have to stop after 11–14 BEC OF HOURS OF SERVICE
Companies can get 100X more loads done with the DRIVERLESS TRUCKS
the profit margin is HUUUUUGE $$$$$$$ many truck drivers will be CUT
TRUCKS CAN RUN 24/7
unlike humans which have to stop after 11–14 BEC OF HOURS OF SERVICE
Companies can get 100X more loads done with the DRIVERLESS TRUCKS
the profit margin is HUUUUUGE $$$$$$$ many truck drivers will be CUT
The goal is to eventually get rid of the driver. There should be no doubt about that. Whether it happens in a few years of fifty years is something I’m not qualified to comment on. But the cost benefits of full autonomy can’t be ignored.