Autonomous Cars And By Extension, Trucks

I've been an Uber driver since last June when I started having issues with my knees. It's helped pay the bills since then but is by no means a full time career here in Central Florida. Having long idle times in the car and driving hundreds of miles a day have helped me decide to get into trucking though.

I ran across the linked opinion piece and while it seems a bit futuristic and I think the timeline might be a bit aggressive, I think it's def coming. I've been picking up a lot of pax that have totally ditched their personal vehicle and just use on demand rideshare now because overall-it's cheaper. Here in Orlando, an Uber is .73/mile while a taxi is $2.40/mile. No parking costs, with rideshare, no maintenance, no insurance, no speeding tickets. No Car payments.

Anyway-it's pretty interesting.

How Uber's Autonomous cars will cost 10m jobs

I've been an Uber driver since last June when I started having issues with my knees. It's helped pay the bills since then but is by no means a full time career here in Central Florida. Having long idle times in the car and driving hundreds of miles a day have helped me decide to get into trucking though.

I ran across the linked opinion piece and while it seems a bit futuristic and I think the timeline might be a bit aggressive, I think it's def coming. I've been picking up a lot of pax that have totally ditched their personal vehicle and just use on demand rideshare now because overall-it's cheaper. Here in Orlando, an Uber is .73/mile while a taxi is $2.40/mile. No parking costs, with rideshare, no maintenance, no insurance, no speeding tickets. No Car payments.

Anyway-it's pretty interesting.

How Uber's Autonomous cars will cost 10m jobs

I actually drove for Uber myself when they first started up in Indy and stopped when they decide to saturate the market and kill drivers by changing the rates.

My thoughts on autonomous car services is pretty simple. The first major accident and lawsuit will set a precedent for the future. Not only will the company get sued for injuries and damages but I'd expect an additional suit against the tech design group for potentially endangering lives. With as litigious as our society has become, it's bound to happen.

Uber is valued at 40bn.

Google has a market cap of 390bn.

Apple has a market cap of 753bn.

These are the companies that are betting on autonomous vehicles. The Google car has over 1mn accident free miles.

And then there's this: Driverless cars set to roll out For trials on UK roads.

It's like the Jetsons!!

Johnnie Cab, "Total Recall"

Our luck, they'll make an autonomous Prius that acts like people driven Priuses. It will be guaranteed to pull in front of you with no signal and have you staining your shorts trying not to hit it.

Who is going to invest billions into automaton trucks, especially when they are going to be outright banned in probably the majority of jurisdictions?

Nevada, California, Michigan and Florida already allow them. Texas has a bill pending to allow them (autonomous cars).

I don't think that there will be any outright bans because the technology will be proven over many years of testing before it becomes commonplace.

And any company that employs drivers will get rid of that expense as soon as it makes fiscal sense to do so.

I find it fascinating! Just imagine driving a truck where you don't have to worry about a stupid 4 wheeler cutting you off! :)

This is how Skynet initiates Judgment Day. Not with nukes, but by running the world's population off bridges, embankments, and overpasses.

This is how Skynet initiates Judgment Day. Not with nukes, but by running the world's population off bridges, embankments, and overpasses.

Lol, if that started happening people would stop using the system.

This is how Skynet initiates Judgment Day. Not with nukes, but by running the world's population off bridges, embankments, and overpasses.

Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

LOL...