Sure if you want to get rid of any kind of night shift working.
petrol stations price discussion (was ‘chaos’)
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Sure if you want to get rid of any kind of night shift working.
Soldato
Non AI vehicles could use the empty A roads.
Caporegime
Couldn't you have AI assisted road trains with a driver heading a train of vehicles woth the AI assist with the rest of the vehicles?
Soldato
Did the Gov pave the way for self driving vehicles 20 years ago?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-paves-the-way-for-self-driving-vehicles-on-uk-roads
The way we use vehicles is in for a massive overhaul, in 20 years time (probably much sooner) owning a car will be akin to owning a horse, you do it because you like cars not because it's your form of daily transport.
The same shakeup will also be true of logistics, self driving vehicles will become ubiquitous, they're just letting the ICE market have the last squeeze of the orange before everything changes, it's inevitable.
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Soldato
Why would I give up my job
Over 1.5m unemployed, train some of them who are capable up. It is not that hard to grasp.
Transport companies have been looking at this for a LONG time. There was talk of long term introduction of fully or partially self driving vehicles since as long I've been driving.
Why would I give up my job
Over 1.5m unemployed, train some of them who are capable up. It is not that hard to grasp.
I'll ask again, if your not willing to do it, and HEADRAT isn't prepared to do it, why should anyone else? Unless your going to force people to do it at the point of gun?
Soldato
The reason I wouldn't do it is I get paid to either sit at home or in a nice office from 09:00 to 17:00, no amount of money would make me want to drive for a living, well if you'd pay me £150K per year I might consider it 
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USA has the same problems
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-has-the-u-s-looking-for-more-drivers-abroad
Soldato
Well Transport companies want it for obvious reasons, problem is the tech just wasn't there, now it is.
Soldato
I’ve never been a trucker but worked away plenty as an electrician.
I would guess that long hours away from home/hobbies/friends, gridlocked roads, responsibility of driving such a large vehicle and mainly eating junk food would be the downsides to long distance truck driving.
I would guess that long hours away from home/hobbies/friends, gridlocked roads, responsibility of driving such a large vehicle and mainly eating junk food would be the downsides to long distance truck driving.
If the tech was here we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Soldato
What made you choose to drive?
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The Armed forces have almost no ADR qualified drivers.
Soldato
The tech is pretty much here, the wheels of Gov move slowly (pun intended), lots of 'vested interests' to be considered not just a few haulage companies and the drivers!
HEADRAT
Soldato
Are you being serious now or just trolling?
I am employed so do not need to consider it.
Many people are unemployed and who knows if were trained who love to do it.
Soldato
Paying proper wages must be hurting the haulage industry, bet they can't wait to get some foreign drivers back so they can get back to treating drivers like ****.
Will be interesting to revisit this in a few years. Long term your right, I just don't think its happening as fast as you think. *bookmarks thread*
None of them seem to want the job right now.