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re: Driverless tractor trailers now operating between Dallas and Houston
Posted on 5/4/25 at 2:19 pm to Nosevens
Posted on 5/4/25 at 2:19 pm to Nosevens
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A company can have 10 and still not be close to being a millionaire let alone a multi millionaire
A million isn't really that much money. Ten OTR trucks are way too much of a liability risk if you aren't stacking money.
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Posted on 5/4/25 at 2:36 pm to Night Vision
I don't get the investment at all.
One fatal accident and Morgan and Morgan and Ultima Morgan ends them.
One fatal accident and Morgan and Morgan and Ultima Morgan ends them.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 2:37 pm to Night Vision
Lovely, I-45 will retain its title as Most Deadly Highway in the US
This post was edited on 5/4/25 at 2:40 pm
Posted on 5/4/25 at 2:41 pm to Night Vision
How do they get gas? 
Posted on 5/4/25 at 2:44 pm to oklahogjr
quote:The first thing I was thinking was sorting out the liabilities after accidents.
I wonder who is at fault if they get into an accident?
Too many substandard conditions. Too much environmental alteration for too many varying reasons - road/construction/repair, weather, sudden erratic changes that would impact OTHER previously uninvolved traffic, mechanical malfunctioning by the vehicles and outside the vehicles
Needs to be outlawed though I think that I have already seen it throughout the south.
I know - we can get a shiteton of DEI ground traffic controllers.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 3:22 pm to LordSaintly
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Or when they cut me off in the fast lane so they can pass up another truck driving 1 mph slower.
It's the other way around. Phoenix area has been the development market for google's Waymo driverless taxi service and around the airport, they are a godsend. You can cut them off to take their place in line and they're programmed to let you in, and of course there's nobody to pull a gun a shoot you for it.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 3:27 pm to GeauxHead337
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Lovely, I-45 will retain its title as Most Deadly Highway in the US
I-35 would like a word
Posted on 5/4/25 at 6:03 pm to shinerfan
Insurance is a MF, I had 42 at one time some 15 years ago. Always had an open lawsuit on my desk. That doesn’t even begin to describe the troubles
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:16 pm to Night Vision
45 will never be the same....
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:17 pm to Night Vision
Wonder how they'll handle windy days.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:26 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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I wonder what it does when it gets there. Does a driver get in and back it into the loading dock?
The trials I've seen have had the truck exit Interstates and highways at pre-staged, [and created] equivalents of wait-parking lots for large airports. These are often on the outskirts of large cities where truck drivers are ferried back and forth to being them in and out.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:28 pm to Night Vision
no likey!
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:31 pm to Lynxrufus2012
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Great until they get hacked.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:32 pm to Night Vision
I was on that interstate between Houston and Dallas about a year ago. 3 lanes going 82 mph. Couldn't leave a even 2 car links between me and the car in front of me. Everytime I did someone switched lanes into that space. I almost ended up back in Houston where I started it happened so often.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:40 pm to Night Vision
Can you imagine the overload cheats, if weigh station checkpoints are waved?
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:42 pm to Night Vision
This is why TX is such an overrated state
Posted on 5/4/25 at 9:48 pm to vl100butch
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this would be perfect for being on the road between 10PM and 5AM... ever see how many 18 wheelers are parked alongside the road and at truck stops during those hours?
Not that you said otherwise, but drivers are required to rest for so many hours after driving for so many hours. They have to keep logs. Its a good safety measure.
I guess these driverless trucks will be allowed to drive longer hours since rest isn’t an issue, only recharging.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 9:59 pm to LordSaintly
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No career is truly safe from AI and robotics.
POLICE, PLUMBERS, HVAC
APARTMENT MANAGEMENT and many trade jobs will always need people.
Most others, you’re right
Posted on 5/4/25 at 10:49 pm to oklahogjr
When these people building driverless trucks find out the truck might not be able to actually pull up to the loading dock they are definitely going to feel really stupid, right?
They are probably going to just give up on the whole idea because there isn’t any possible solution for that.
They are probably going to just give up on the whole idea because there isn’t any possible solution for that.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 5:09 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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I wonder what it does when it gets there. Does a driver get in and back it into the loading dock?
I have a feeling that like a tesla, a driver will be in the cabin although not actually driving.
From a practical standpoint, I think the loss ratio will be less with computer error less than human error especially fatalities.
I agree with the poster above. Run them 10pm to 5 am and get freight moving.
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A million isn't really that much money. Ten OTR trucks are way too much of a liability risk if you aren't stacking money.
The cost of trucking insurance is absolutely insane.
Also, I wish I could upload my video of the last truck accident handled by Morgan...POS lady at light pulls from right lane into middle lane but only front half of vehicle. Completely blind to see from driver seat and light changes green and vehicle never moves for 5 seconds as tractor moves slowly ahead and hits it.
I think its fraud.
This post was edited on 5/5/25 at 5:12 pm
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