Are they out to get squeeky?

It did state that a driver was still needed behind the wheel in cases of emergency , and the truck won’t pass a slower vehicle,but in places where the weather is always nice and the roads are fairly straight, I can see companies giving it a try.

I don’t think you will see one of those up here on our mountain highways ,and especially in the winter for some time, but hey ya never know.
And I always thought they are out to get me.LOL

No! We will all look out for the SQUEEKY family, nobody will get him!

They’re out to “get” anyone with a decent job.

@stanleybmanly that couldn’t be truer!

Not sure how I feel about this. They won’t make the idiotic mistakes that humans make, which kills people, but….IDK.

@Dutchess_III that rig might do great in ideal conditions, but what about when conditions are far less than ideal?
Is it going to know to slow down because it is running on black ice?
Is it going to chain itself up?
Or how about fog so thick you can’t see 5feet off the hood?

@SQUEEKY2

Hopefully a truck that can do all that will cost about a $billion a rig, so that even the most monetarily-myopic execs will red-light such nonsense. ;-)

You would think it would have traction sensors.
Don’t know about a chain.
It could have radar for the fog.

I think for right now @Brian1946 is probably right the cost of such a rig would be so high even the wealthiest of companies would wait for years or even decades for the cost to come down, before trying one or more on their fleet.

Well the one thing on which we can all agree is that the writing is on the wall. “Progress” would seem to dictate that my big rig worshiping grandson will not have a shot at Squeeks career. I can remember when my horse and mayhem enchanted daughter——by the way, can anyone explain to me this fetish that girls and women have involving horses?——arrived at the perfect career decision. She would grow up to be a big city blacksmith.

Hey @stanleybmanly They will still need people inside these units, but instead of really driving it, the person will be more of a monitor making sure everything is working fine.

And no I can’t explain the horse fetish that most females have,just super glad that Mrs Squeaky wasn’t caught under this spell.

The kid outgrew it. The 40 year old ran out and got a pit bull puppy. It’s exasperating.

”... while the truck will drive itself, there are limitations that make sure the driver is still needed.”

It’s the driver’s wage that is the issue.

@ibstubro That is true,and it might backfire on em, meaning the person in the truck might require so much training as to know the truck,it will push the wages for these types of units higher than the average trucker.

Here is a relevant article. Self-Driving Cars Getting in Accidents on Public Roads
“Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies to test them on public roads.
Two accidents happened while the cars were in control; in the other two, the person who still must be behind the wheel was driving,”

Hey @LuckyGuy who was to blame for the accident when the car was in control?
Oh and I read the manual transmissions are making a come back because of public demand,which is good to know.

@SQUEEKY You asked “who was to blame for the accident when the car was in control?” That’s easy:
Any lawyer can tell you who will be blamed – the entity with the most money.