>waaah I need my 10-Hour Off-Duty Rest>waah I hit my 11-Hour Driving Limit>waah I can violate my 14-Hour Duty Window>waah where is my 30-Minute Break>waah diesel is too highCan’t wait for trucking to be automated with these funny looking modern vehicles that don't get tired, don’t bitch and moan and don’t pollute. Hope there’s a million unemployed MAGA truckers by 2035. I’m sure President Vance will help you.
>>544109372Still not winter tested moron.
>>544109372I feel like the only way this will work is if they build a 3 lane self driving only highway that goes through the entire country
>>544109372>Hope there’s a million unemployed MAGA truckers by 2035Someone's out of touch. There's going to be more of you unemployed, Manjeet
>>544110112This is what a retard trucker would say
>>544110282I have no skin in this game I just don't think you can mix self driving and regular drivers if you want this shit to work it needs to segregate
>>544109372Roads are not for freight. Unfuck rail.
>>544110430They should uproot all the trains and convert them into automated truck highways you could even transport people on them the way trains do
>>544110578>we should rip out infrastructure that does the thing I am talking about to replace it with infrastructure that does the same thing but worseInteresting.
>>544110673It doesn't do it well and cost effectively
>>544110326Yeah, they would shitcan them the moment accidents reached half the level of human truck drivers.Dedicated lanes removes the unpredictability of the human variable, but at that point, you may as well use a railway.
>>544110282Your skin color is the same color as poop
If you think truckers are annoying now just wait until they're all unemployed.
>>544110742>but at that point, you may as well use a railwayThe benefit here is the system is completely automated though and with every truck being able to communicate with each other you have less of a chance for delays
>>544110112>I feel likestopped reading opinion discarded
Truckers are mostly hicks and white trash and losers who sit on their ass all day and get hemorrhoids and fuck mangey nigger lot lizards and tweaked-out meth whores.
>>544110972I accept your concession
>>544109372I'm looking forward to suing you once one of your autonomous automobiles scratches my truck.
>>544110112>I feel likeThat's what a faggot or a woman would say. Which are you?
>>544110944An automated train is easier than an automated truck, no chance of something crashing into it.
>>544111082see>>544111067>>544111154I disagree because the truck would be able to go directly to it's warehouse and would not need to stop and unload and hold up trucks behind them
>>544111154If you put as many trains on the tracks as there are trucks on the road, trains would be crashing into each other non-stop.
>>544110112So, a train?
>>544110944True.It's hard to believe a more modular railway system hasn't emerged in the past hundred years, considering a tractor trailer can only haul around a quarter of the weight of a railcar.I do see trailers loaded on flatbed cars occasionally though.
>>544110718Rail freight in the USA is the most economical way to transport anything except people long distances.
>>544111005It’s mostly brown foreigners that can’t read actually, white trash is the minority, hopefully these electric trucks take all there jobs!
>>544111265You wouldnt need anywhere near as many trains as trucks.Trains are bigger than trucks.
>>544111313No because it is automated and doesn't stop at stops slowing down everything behind it. They just get off at an exit and drive directly to their warehouses>>544111379and this would be even more economical and efficient and can include people
>>544109372>Lost your job? Just learn to cod-ACKJews will replace us all with clankers.
>>544109372What a disingenuous faggot you are. Truckers try to do those things but OSHA doesn't allow them to. Obviously they would make a lot more money if you would just let them chug energy drinks and drive 24 hours straight, so obviously that's what all of them would love to do, but it's a safety hazard for everyone else so OSHA stepped in and now you get three strikes and you'll never drive for any company again.
>>544109372Imagine being this butt hurt.
>>544109372i thought all truck drivers are jeets? genocide jeets already
>>544111457But you're going to need more trains if you move away from trucks. This is not a good thing when everything about trains make it harder for them to brake in the event that something goes wrong. They travel at high speeds, have low friction with the track and have huge amounts of mass and on top of it they can't just instantly change tracks even if you have multiple ones side by side. You'd need to build out rail infrastructure a huge amount for it to actually work. On top of all of this, you don't even get some big benefit from automating the trains like you do with trucks because of the size difference you mentioned. Every thing you can think of to make the trains better also makes the need to automate them less important.
>>544111476>No because it is automated and doesn't stop at stops slowing down everything behind it. They just get off at an exit and drive directly to their warehousesThere is such a thing as a rail station for unloading freight while being off of the main track.
>>544111457Here’s a crazy idea: why not both?
>>544111652Yeah.OP is a retard. Most of what he is citing as common complaints of truckers are what has been imposed on them.Fuel cost isn't their concern unless they are an owner operator.
>>544112122>There is such a thing as a rail station for unloading freight while being off of the main track.So have any of you super pro train people ever road a train long distance because if you did you would understand the #1 issue with trains is delays and these aren't 20 minute delays but hours caused by issues at stations or very commonly someone not showing up to work all this would be solved with that I am proposing
>>544109372I would never go on the highway again if they removed truck rest regulations, letting anyone operate a 30 ton roadtrain with mental fatigue on public roads is pure idiocy.
>>544111313Kek beat me to it.
>>544112264Driverless road trains?
>>544109372>drivelessThey are remotely controlled by Indians.And no, this is not a racist rant. Half of the real-world AI is just a warehouse in Mumbai with 700 Indians doing computer work while they make it look like it's actually AI.Do you guys remember the AI-powered self-service Amazon store? It was just 50 Indians watching cameras and taking notes of what you have picked up.AI = All Indian. Can't wait for those AI trucks to drive like they drive in India. Killing 2 people per trip while they take jobs away.
>>544112404see>>544111476you are just as retarded as he is
>>544112490I was thinking more a combination of automated trains and trucks working seamlessly to distribute and deliver goods perhaps using existing rail lines and roads but desu I like yours better
>>544109372It's astounding how retarded you have to be to think that the only reason truckers don't work insane hours is because they simply don't want to.
>>544112278I'm not super pro-train.Mainly pointing out the cost effectiveness of long-haul freight via train vs truck.Trains suck for getting a product to its final destination.They each have their place in industrial and consumer product shipping.A bit off-topic anyways since OP is espousing the superiority of driverless trucks.The cost of paying a driver(s) and loss of profit from their down-time vs investment cost for driverless tech and maintenance is the real question.Also, what happens when there is a mishap with a driverless truck?If you need to pay a babysitter, you might as well just pay a driver.Perhaps an AI "cruise control" for the interstate long hauls, with the driver taking control in high-traffic areas and inclimate conditions will be the most feasible in the near-future.Having support staff or contractors on standby across the country for mishaps or to drive the final stretch is also option.
>>544113339It is more cost effective for there to be no "stations" but more like highway exits that each truck can get off and end at their destination and have one or two maintenance guys who cover a 100 mile span of the routeYou do at least 3 lanes so there can be a fluid emergency lane if a truck gets stopped for whatever reasonYou would be reducing like 50 jobs to like 2 for every 100 milesAgain I am not pro or anti truck this just seems like the next logical step in my eyes.
>>544109372Good. Truckers are fucking scum and retarded as fuck. Most of them are dumbass dysgenic illegal brownoids. Get them off the road. The world will be a lot better.
>>544113614The cost of adding and maintaining that third lane everywhere trucks need to go, though.Damn
>>544113852how much would it cost to maintain and why is that a deal breaker considering thats smaller than US highways?
Truckers and farmers are useless bitches and losers.
>>544112398I would rather have pre-2010 regulations with the 16 hour max shifts than the dopey shitskin drivers all over the place doing retarded shit on the roads now.
>>544110430>Roads are not for freight. Unfuck rail.Yeah, a company needing sulfuric acid in California from PA can just wait 5 weeks for rail delivery. And I have bad news for ya.... The roads ARE for freight; you just have the privilege of using them for going out gay cruising.t. Teamster.
>>544113983It costs ~$2 million to add a mile of extra lane to a rural highway, minimum. Tens of millions per mile if you take moving the adjacent infrastructure into consideration in developed areas.Maintenance is very costly too.Doubt it would be worth adding lanes for the sake of avoiding paying drivers and don't care enough about it to do the research and crunch the numbers myself.
>>544114561A hundred billion, to few hundred billion infrastructure project to add lanes to interstate highways alone.The cost estimates I keep finding are wildly varying and mine doesn't consider all the caveats of adding a lane in urban and suburban areas.Not going to happen anytime soon, if ever.
>>544109372I look forward to blocking these in with traffic cones and milk crates
>>544115259Paint tunnels on the sides of cliffs
>>544109372>Can’t wait for trucking to be automated with these funny looking modern vehicles that don't get tired, don’t bitch and moan and don’t pollute.Similarly I cannot wait for the wonderful age of Road Pirate being a legitimate and easy job for at least a few years. Can't wait for the articles crying about how much is getting stolen from driverless trucks that "don't get tired, don't bitch and moan and don't pollute.The people who steal from them now are gonna just start taking anything mildly valuable from these loot crates.
>>544110112Are you deaf, dumb, blind, retarded, trolling, baiting, shilling, or a bot?
You guys are all wrong
>>544109372>waaah I need my 10-Hour Off-Duty Rest>waah I hit my 11-Hour Driving LimitAhh yes, famously popular with drivers. I remember in the 90s when the drivers all got together and demanded it.
>>544109372The only reason I want automated trucking is because I'm tired of truckers doing illegal shit like trying to pass on the left when the sign says trucks stay in the right to lanes. Didn't used to be a problem, but truckers aren't majority white any more.
>>544119108It'd be a real shame if that air goes where you don't want it to go.
>>544111476Trains can be automated, retard. Actually, the technology is already there (PTC & Trip Optimizer combined basically means the train drives itself), it's just regulations and union contracts blocking it.
truckers are brownoid scum, they act like they own business' and employ people because they drop shit off for a vender, stuck up dumb cunts all in one
>>544110430Umm.....>National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956)https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/national-interstate-and-defense-highways-actWe literally only have the interstates because we needed a system to move troops and supplies around the country quickly
>>544109372No driver is preferable to a jeet I suppose
>>544109372OK where is it gonna charge, who's gonna handle it's middle of the road breakdowns, who is liable when it inevitably kills somebody, how does a battery or series of batteries manage to hold charge carrying a 40k pound load over the Rockies?Im actually out on the road all over the country and I've seen charging stations for trucks once. But lets say we make all the trucks electric, this will require tens of thousands of charging stations at every truck stop and rest area. And there already isn't enough truck parking with the number of truckers sleeping on the shoulder every night.It's a lovely idea but the infrastructure is not there for anything more than light local less than one day runs with light freight. You simply have no fucking clue how the industry works nor how building infrastructure works.Leftist trucker by the way
>>544120582china will have that shit before anyonethen rule us financially
>>544110112>I feel likeI feel like blowing a load inside your butthole you dumb whore
>>544120767More than likely, they seem to actually be able to build shit and get shit done.the best chance of making electric trucks and self driving trucks actually work would be to create some kind of hotrail along all of the highways. Which once again is a massive infrastructural undertaking which would cost tens of billions of dollars minimum.
>>544120878tens of billions of dollars and decades of work to put in* forgot the time table of this wondrous idea.and one more thing, odds are when or if self driving trucks are commonplace there will still be one of those awful lazy truck drivers sitting on their ass behind the wheel making 100k a year to let the truck roll down the road for at least 5-10 years.
>>544120407why don't YOU take the job
>>544109372That entire thing is just lithium battery cells. Lithium is finite we're not supposed to exhaust it all for dumb shit
