What’s your take on autonomous trucks? Should we embrace technology or should govt slow it down to save trucker’s jobs?

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{"replyTo":"","text":"Ok please realize that you do not have a solid grasp on where Technology is at in 2019. I don’t say that to be mean I say that to encourage you to research technology. I specifically gave a margin of 10-20 years. There are self driving cars being run by Waymo and the company currently has 8million miles of autonomous driving under its belt, Tesla has even more. SpaceX’s Falcon rocket platform launches and returns to land vertically near the launch pad in Cape Canaveral. HyperLoop is being developed in Nevada and Los Angeles to carry people and cargo in a near vacuum tube at 500+mph (that’s why I said it’ll replace trains). Boston Dynamics is developing robots to replace package handler that move boxes on the loading dock from pallets. We now use AI software to develop mechanical things because they can run through millions of designs and test them without ever making them in real life. Old fashioned metal forging is slowly being replaced with 3D Metal printing for intricate metal designs. AI systems have a higher success rate of detecting cancer in the human body so Radiologists will soon be phased out by a computer. The Electric Cars adoption curve is spiking at a faster rate than people who were actually pro Electric Vehicle expected. The Tesla Model 3, Model S, and Model X which are made in America have been selling so well that Ford themselves have stated that the future of their biggest seller, the F-150, is electric. Many other major car manufacturers like Volkswagen, Honda, Mercedes, Audi, Porsche, BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover, and Rivian are either converting incrementally or fully to electric vehicles. Many Commercial Truck manufacturers have a secret Electric Truck they’re working on but they all try to keep their trucks styling which is by nature not aerodynamic. The Tesla Semi is by design more aerodynamic than a Bugatti Veyron with included horsepower pushing 1000hp thanks to 4 independent electric motors. There’s a reason trains are driven with DC electric motors, it’s not because they’re quite. It’s unfortunate but there will be more and more Luddites in the world. We will have to find another way to have purpose in our lives. The rise of automation is so relevant that Presidential candidates like Andrew Yang are proposing Universal Basic Income to compensate workers replaced by automation out of the profit gains companies receive from using robots. \n\nTesla Autopilot- https://youtu.be/m3-QzTFxoUg\n\nTesla Semi (100% Electric)- https://youtu.be/dP0vIH8r-tE\n\nSpaceX Falcon Heavy- https://youtu.be/HVqWEoyiaBA\n\nBoston Dynamic- https://youtu.be/5iV_hB08Uns , https://youtu.be/kHBcVlqpvZ8\n\nHyperLoop One- https://youtu.be/MU4LTv_eNgQ\n\nAI Radiology- https://youtu.be/xDgkmXAsvL8\n\nAI product Development- https://youtu.be/aR5N2Jl8k14\n\nMetal Printing- https://youtu.be/da5IsmZZ-tw\n\nF150 EV- https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a25933730/ford-f-150-electric-pickup-truck-confirmed/\n","replyToPid":0}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"no technology on this earth can replace human capabilities in my opinion","replyToPid":0}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"Because everybody loves it when government impedes progress... You can’t stop change. You can force it to approach from a different angle but you can’t stop its progress. Autonomous trucks will supplement drivers for 10 or 20 years because the Artificial Intelligence isn’t smart enough to account for all the variables yet, but to do that you have to let AI advance to the point that Elon Musk has feared that AI would run away. Somewhere between now and that point the Hyperloop system will be up and moving and that by itself will cut out 75% or more of long haul trucking because it will replace the old train system. AI is being developed by people smarter than 95% of the world but not even they fully understand the implications or possibilities of AI. This will probably be humanity’s next evolutionary branch because people like Musk have acknowledged it and started companies like Neuralink to allow human computer interface at a higher bandwidth than our current biological mechanical interfaces allow (eg: keyboard, mouse, touchpad)","replyToPid":0}

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649124 发表于 2019-04-14 18:08:14 Buddy!thats the day it’s over!but as  futuristic a notion is!it is unprobable it is gonna happen!the logistic is just not practical!think with all the nuckelhead out there do you think a computer will be able to navigate thru that?this not like a 🚂 train that fallows tracks,a Self Driven truck another thing entirely!now if someone can remotely operate it or monitor it,kinda different!but you need a person on site!thats irreplaceable...if you ask me!and it is not up to the govt,but people to see about it...the legislature,liability,and Cooperations bottom line(if not greed!)the issue is still far from resolved!Keep on trucking!

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620891 发表于 2019-04-14 19:36:21 no technology on this earth can replace human capabilities in my opinion

","text":"People used to think the horseless carriage wouldn’t replace the horse. People used the computational machine wouldn’t leave the office. People used to think no one would want to carry around a personal phone. People used to think the earth was the center of the universe. People used to think the Gods required a blood sacrifice everyday to insure the sun would rise tomorrow. People use think 512mb of ram on your computer was all you’d ever need. People used to think you could trust the mainstream media. People used to think Chimpanzees didn’t eat other moneys. People used to think a lot of things but fact is, times they are’ah changin. ","replyToPid":13694}

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620891 发表于 2019-04-14 19:36:21 no technology on this earth can replace human capabilities in my opinion

","text":"Who’s to say that we ourselves are not a biological technology that we cannot yet understand. We will soon be able to selectively edit genes to stop the furthering of undesirable traits and conditions. It’s just bio-edits our DNA’s code. We’re just one big program, same as this app. At its smallest level it’s just a string of 1’s and 0’s. 011000110010110100010010011001010","replyToPid":13694}

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649124 发表于 2019-04-16 00:52:11 Dude...I begin to suspect you are an extraterrestrial 👽😳...we comment here to sorta wipe the bar down!but you hit back with a academia waterfall!Hey,good for you!...you do make very valid points!

","text":"Wipe the bar down. Lol “Welcome to Cheers!!”","replyToPid":14511}