Waymo is betting that the future of shipping will be autonomous 18-wheelers. NBC News’ Gadi Schwartz meets Boris Sofman, the company’s head of engineering for trucking, to hear about its test program for semi-trucks. They go for a ride with a safety driver behind the wheel. As Waymo tests its self-driving trucks in Arizona, they say their biggest challenge is accounting for unpredictable behavior from others on the road. The U.S. is facing a growing shortage of truck drivers.
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It will make mistakes, especially in icey snowing conditioners
This will only work for businesses like Safeway, Wal-Mart, FedEx, Ups, that's it. Trucking is far greater than this.
Lol this is not happening anytime soon. Notice they only let these practice from Southern Cali to Texas and the states in between. Weather, traffic detours, horrible car drivers are all obstacles a self driving truck will not be able to over come by itself. Trucking is much more complicated than driving on I-10 on sunny days
Stop lying all the time there isn't a trucker shortage these companies don't pay enough to sacrifice my home time family life safety and happiness to be on the Road for weeks making the same amount as a warehouse worker run 2700 to 3k+ miles in 6days for $1,000 and not get home at that rate you can't even take off work without falling behind if you have a family OTR driving is not where you want to be the biggest cost in trucking is paying the driver which most companies scam to make more profit and that's all automated trucks are it's big company's and business way of making more money without people stop trying to make it about safety it money PERIOD
Will driverless trucks circle the capital for no reason.
Explain to me how a driverless truck is going to fight its way through heavy city traffic, trying to get around cars and cornering. Is a driverless truck going to take the paperwork from your load into a shipper or receiver to get loaded or unloaded. Who is going to get out and open the doors to your trailer. Explain all of this to me and not to mention the price tag. We can't afford the trucks now because of the expense. These things are going to be probably close to $500,000.
Truck drivers better go back to school or change careers before it too late
So looking forward to Jonny cab 🚕 services. No reason to own a car with this.
This technology is going to do some damage and it’s going to end well
Yes, there’s a driver shortage but I think pay is the problem. Easily fixed.
This will help us out a whole lot because we need less people stuck in traffic and will be a lot less road rage
Just wait, when them stupid trucks gets hacked and start doing damage… now… that’s how people are going to start getting RICHHHHHH 🤔 [ can’t wait]😂😂😂
I'm can see the cost just to maintain this problem
…WOW!! THE FUTURE! IS LOOKING AWESOME!!!
I'm sure horse and buggy drivers made all types of excuses for not having engine vehicles on the road.
They took our jobs
I would like to know if I sell driving truck who’s going to open the back trailer doors who’s going to put the chains on to go down a mountain when it’s snowing who’s going to put the fuel
Good that they taught it not to be a left-lane Hog, like most of you sucky drivers . 😅
Glad that won't happen in Hawaii in my lifetime.
And what happens when it snows, especially here in Wisconsin, even a dusting? What about LTL bumping docks all day at businesses? Na like an airplane, I want someone there
That and they already have driverless trucks called trains!! Hello.
No way it's going anywhere. It's not safe for cars and sure isn't safe for even bigger and more deadly machines. We the people desperately need a nationwide mandatory right lane law for these trucks. They can smash a person without leaving a trace like the poor man whose bit of mustache was found on a trucker's grill in a car wash. God help us.
Mail order president, boys competing in girls sports, bottom surgery in kindergarten
Bob will live forever…
how will this truck react in a snow qual ?
I want to see it fuel its self ,open trailer doors and latch them ! Fix the refer ,fuel the refer ,program the refer !
This isn't earth shattering news. There is company that has been running driverless trucks for years from San Diego to Arizona. And you can spot driverless semis on I 10 between Phoenix and Tucson
When a truck decides to run over a pedestrian on a sidewalk instead of slamming into a car with passengers,
is that an act of programmed mercy or premeditated murder? Whose insurance company is going to cover it?
For couple of it's own pocket bugs boob and the Enginer, are trying to put millions of poor truck driver jobs on the hill, what will you guys answer to God once get there?
A bumper sticker "TEST VEHICLE, NO DRIVER" to keep other cars at a safe distance.
Computer crash all the time. One freak accident & multi-million dollar lawsuits.
No simple answer
Even truck drivers are going instinct
The guy with the plaid shirt is really smiling knowing he's about to put millions of people out of work. The high school geeks will be getting the last laugh after all.
Good luck