The i newspaper ran an article on driverless wagons yesterday, titled “who’s driving that thing?”
It quotes the senior analyst at Navigant ,“…what the industry is talking about is 10 years for fully autonomous and 5 years for semi autonomous vehicles”
and
“job losses…truck drivers will in the end not be needed”
It is worth pointing out to new entrants to driving, and to haulage companies that it is not worth investing in the cost of acquiring qualifications in the hope of making an economic return in such a limited period. Anyway, recent history tells us that technological advances arrive much quicker than anticipated.
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The i newspaper ran an article on driverless wagons yesterday, titled “who’s driving that thing?”
It quotes the senior analyst at Navigant ,“…what the industry is talking about is 10 years for fully autonomous and 5 years for semi autonomous vehicles”
and
“job losses…truck drivers will in the end not be needed”
It is worth pointing out to new entrants to driving, and to haulage companies that it is not worth investing in the cost of acquiring qualifications in the hope of making an economic return in such a limited period. Anyway, recent history tells us that technological advances arrive much quicker than anticipated.
In fairness they said in the 50’s we’d have nuclear powered vacuum cleaners within ten years…
In 1943, the IBM president Thomas Watson said the world market for computers would reach around five eventually…
Dont worry, its never going to happen, FFS, they cant even repair a few bloody pot holes, so how are they going to rip up the whole of the road network in this country, to lay the necessary cables to control the things. It may happen in around 50 years, on a road somewhere in the middle of nowhere, where it cannot possibly harm anyone, or anything. If thats to be believed, look at the Docklands light railway + the little trains that take people to the North terminal at Gatwick, which are both driverless, and have been for years, then look at the railways, which have all the infrastructure in place, yet not one driverless train, and you think its gonna happen on our road network…think again.
It won’t happen because no computer in the world can process enough information to deal with the ■■■■ poor standards of driving which we face every day.
In order to have driverless lorries we would need driverless cars first
I was at TFL for 12years when we was at DLR the train captain yes they call them that
would have to take over and drive some times
in order to have driver less trains on the London underground would cost a mega amount
