LogFAQs > #966083279

There's to many variables of trucking for it be fully automated anytime in the near or even far future.

And any examples people see of it today are in a controled and predictable envirements. To which our roads, weather, shipping/reciving yards, traffic or truck stops are far from that. Requiring creative thought and on the fly decisions oftentimes to maneuver.

GPS, even the most modern ones can be buggy, fail, send you don't either a suboptimal path, and or a dangerous, non viable one for trucks. To which a AI may not be able to identify where a human could.

Oubliettes posted...

i feel like "_____ will NEVER be automated" is prolly a pretty dumb take to have about anything

And opinions like this seem overly optimistic to me.