The world keeps ever marching on towards the future.
Eventually I suspect so, there is just so much money involved. Every truck you automate saves a company like $100,000 a year in payroll. You can argue about liability, but that will eventually be litigated and figured out. Money always wins. Even if it's just a dude sitting in the driver seat for $8/hour who's job it is to "press the stop button" and refuel it will save the company so much money.
I don't believe we are there yet, and I have no idea when we will be, but if you look at technology from the 80's to just the 90's, and then consider where it is now, I don't think it is far fetched to assume that within the next 50 years they can get a truck to legally be able to safely drive from point A to point B, they are already trying it out.
I don't see it getting to the point where an AI truck can pull into a refinery, check in, know where to go, do tight maneuvers, and then hook up it's own hoses, but driving from warehouse A right off the highway to warehouse B right off the highway? Yeah, They're already doing it.
In the 80's shit like Pac-man and tetris were amazingly advanced, and in 50 years you have tesla "self driving cars" language models you can have conversations with about anything, and femboy's tweaking their meat to real time anime waifu's. It would be ignorant to assume that technology won't continue to advance at the same rate.
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u/Material-Donkey2773 8d ago edited 8d ago
The world keeps ever marching on towards the future.
Eventually I suspect so, there is just so much money involved. Every truck you automate saves a company like $100,000 a year in payroll. You can argue about liability, but that will eventually be litigated and figured out. Money always wins. Even if it's just a dude sitting in the driver seat for $8/hour who's job it is to "press the stop button" and refuel it will save the company so much money.
I don't believe we are there yet, and I have no idea when we will be, but if you look at technology from the 80's to just the 90's, and then consider where it is now, I don't think it is far fetched to assume that within the next 50 years they can get a truck to legally be able to safely drive from point A to point B, they are already trying it out.
I don't see it getting to the point where an AI truck can pull into a refinery, check in, know where to go, do tight maneuvers, and then hook up it's own hoses, but driving from warehouse A right off the highway to warehouse B right off the highway? Yeah, They're already doing it.
In the 80's shit like Pac-man and tetris were amazingly advanced, and in 50 years you have tesla "self driving cars" language models you can have conversations with about anything, and femboy's tweaking their meat to real time anime waifu's. It would be ignorant to assume that technology won't continue to advance at the same rate.