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Semi Trucks That Drive Themselves – The Answer to the Truck Driver Shortage
Trucking companies are exploring levels of autonomy to improve freight efficiency and get self-driving big rigs on the road before autonomous personal cars because it just makes more sense. 0:00 Self-Driving Big Rigs 0:29 Aurora Horizon Self-Driving Tech 1:31 Einride Autonomous Pod and Electric Trailer 2:23 Embark Trucks Self-Driving Tech 3:16 Kodiak Robotics Autonomous Equipment…
Electrex
July 9, 2022 at 2:58 pm
Self driving trucks would be a horror movie
tsunamis82
July 9, 2022 at 3:02 pm
There are enough accidents now with trucks with drivers. What chaos brake checkers could cause with driverless trucks
Ja Wi
July 9, 2022 at 3:04 pm
But wouldn’t all these problems be fixed with a better national railroad system? (Except for the last mile).
Nicholas Dante McGee
July 9, 2022 at 5:50 pm
Or drone delivery. No need to build roads or rails..
MarioPL
July 9, 2022 at 6:36 pm
@Nicholas Dante McGee You didn’t put much thought into your comment, did you?
Nicholas Dante McGee
July 9, 2022 at 6:39 pm
@MarioPL is that the best you can come up with?? You are an example of the problem… Now 🤫
MarioPL
July 9, 2022 at 6:48 pm
@Nicholas Dante McGee Do you even know the weight of a truck load? The length of freight in that truck? Some freight needs to be in a specific temperature, some needs to be covered. Car carrier trailers over size loads. How in the world would a drone do any of that?
I’ll wait and see what you can come up with. See who the problem is here and their way of thinking.
KingOG
July 9, 2022 at 3:24 pm
Show us the truck driving through LA traffic and I’m convinced
I'm Out
July 9, 2022 at 4:21 pm
Of course that’s a good point, but there are considerations beyond technology’s ability to perform. Putting a large number of people out of work is a recipe for ADDITIONAL and EXACERBATING social disaster in the U.S. Our society is fk’d up enough as it is.
Peter
July 9, 2022 at 3:47 pm
I really want to see these “advanced” big truck AI doing traffic when they have to deliver in the city…what a joke!
We ALL have to wait at least 5 years before the AI has the ability to drive aroun safely…and not like we all see, driving straight highways without much traffic.
Time and again we have seen that real world traffic in and outside the city is a LOT a more complex then anything we have see today.
Even Elon Musk must agree and accept that the always changing real world is different than we let to believe!
Dovydas
July 9, 2022 at 9:57 pm
Inner city they switch to human drivers.
Dustin McDowell
July 9, 2022 at 3:57 pm
The solution is trains, and trains are the solution to most transportation problems. But it’s the solution that Americans love to hate.
Ichigo Kurosaki
July 9, 2022 at 4:06 pm
This concept raises more problems than solutions at the moment. When you add in, the government regulating the industry is now broken.
Nicholas Hennessy
July 9, 2022 at 4:09 pm
I’m a simple man, I see Cooley, I click.
I'm Out
July 9, 2022 at 4:09 pm
How about this, CNET:
I AM a long-haul truck driver.
I HAVE WORKED THRU THE PANDEMIC, OUT ON THE ROAD FOR 10 – 12 WEEKS AT A TIME, AND THEN TO A NICE MOTEL ON THE SOCAL COAST FOR 4 OR 5 DAYS, AND THEN BACK ON THE ROAD AGAIN – BRINGING YOU YOUR COSTCO, YOUR SAMS AND WALMART, YOUR LOWES, YOUR FEDEX AND YOUR GEORGIA PACIFIC PAPER PRODUCTS THAT WERE IN SUCH SHORT SUPPLY FOR SO LONG.
But that’s ok as driving a truck is THE ONLY WAY at my age of 60 that I can make any kind of a living where I’m able to save a small amount of money for my retirement.
NOW LOADS ARE SUDDENLY REDUCED BY A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE – AND YOU, CNET, ARE IN A STATE OF EXCITED GLEE TO ANNOUNCE TECHNOLOGY THAT COULD PUT ME OUT OF WORK.
You go ahead and have your fun with your driverless vehicles (and currently nearly zero supporting infrastructure). I will say I hopefully won’t be around to witness it completely ruin what’s left of my life.
And by the way, I’m done subscribing to CNET – and any other channel that wants to celebrate my and thousands of other men and women’s sudden unemployment.
NextNate03
July 9, 2022 at 4:36 pm
There is a truck driver shortage.
It been like that for 10+ years.
Driverless trucks is not going to be widely adopted for at least 10 to 20+ years.
Not to mention that it could take years longer because the government is slow to update or pass new laws regarding new techlines.
Trucking companies still need people behind the wheel in the so called driver trucks.
Level 5 driverless vehicles are still a long ways away.
Eventually, everything going to be automated.
It’s going to take 50+ years to do so.
Tesla been trying to go 100 percent automated for years, their quality control is not great.
Other Automakers had added robots to their manufacturing line 30 to 40+ years ago.
They are still using thousands workers to work the liness.
steev the technophile
July 9, 2022 at 4:24 pm
My last role was at Waymo and I miss it terribly. Such an innovative environment to work in and the has so many promises that we are seeing come to fruition
NEVER OBEY
July 9, 2022 at 4:25 pm
Maybe in 20 years
Hareemowep
July 9, 2022 at 4:29 pm
best self steering and long range cargo vehicles…trains.
Nelson V
July 9, 2022 at 4:41 pm
1st: What about simply paying drivers a fair living wage like they used to. 2nd point: A giant loaded big rig driving down the road without a human at the helm? What could go wrong here?
James Whitaker
July 9, 2022 at 5:33 pm
There is no driver shortage period!!!! The companies don’t pay drivers there value. I have been driving trucks 32 years and only changes are most union companies closed which drove non union LTL companies pay to be higher and ELD. Its 2022 an companies still want drivers to be away from home weeks or months with 3 days off for maybe $60k year. This pay not even close for losing your life at home because it moves on without you. If been driving long as I have you have lost and missed a lot. I started at.18 mile. I kept my records clean move high paying driving jobs but there is not enough for all my fellow drivers. The pandemic has caused drivers walk away for being exposed. They talk about police and hospitals on front lines. Well truth of matter is truck drivers are on front lines first. All others can’t do sh$$t until we get them what they need to do their jobs. Pay us and praise us like you do other. RT
NextNate03
July 9, 2022 at 6:12 pm
All you have to do is to research for less than 10 minutes to fins that there are truck driver shortages everywhere.
Also, truck drivers on YouTube been telling everybody for 10+ years that there are truck driver shortages. Nobody would believe them until recently when the pandemic hit.
Debiddo Guranto
July 9, 2022 at 6:47 pm
This is an idiotic unrealistic view. CNET you have really fallen off, there is no way this works to scale. Automated vehicles are a pipe dream of big city liberals.
Vince Baker
July 9, 2022 at 7:01 pm
What do the insurance companys have to say about the self driving big trucks? How will lyeabuilty be handeled?
Titus Chon
July 9, 2022 at 7:01 pm
Here’s the easier answer: Quit forcing the drivers to take the vaccine!
Titus Chon
July 9, 2022 at 7:47 pm
@NextNate03 FDA approved them under an EUA. They have never actually been approved by the FDA. FDA approval takes up to 15 years.
NextNate03
July 9, 2022 at 8:11 pm
@Titus Chon FDA did fully approved it on August 23 2021.
I would leave a link, YouTube would take my comment down because of Censorship.
Google it.
Ronald C Krause Jr
July 9, 2022 at 7:45 pm
It gets worse…
One half of all commercial trucks will be fully self driving in america in the next ten years.
Have a career in trucking now? Unless it is the proper endorsement and cargo, not for long. There is very little of a career future in trucking, not a long career.
David McCarthy
July 9, 2022 at 8:11 pm
The driver shortage is partially because they are pretty well abused by trucking companies, so this is welcome news.
The Unboxing Room
July 9, 2022 at 7:58 pm
30 years from this
Daniel Kerwood
July 9, 2022 at 8:55 pm
In theory yes. In implementation and reality, nope.
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Reggie P
July 9, 2022 at 11:24 pm
Why isn’t the answer better pay, better treatment? How about we find some automated reporters that give us useless info or one side of EVERY story? That should be easy.
Keith Benson
July 9, 2022 at 11:49 pm
This would be fantastic IF maintenance and compliance wasn’t 90% of the job.. These will never be profitable bc insurers will not insure these trucks without a driver in the truck the liability is infinite.
Tucker Monticelli
July 9, 2022 at 11:52 pm
Wow CNET your showing your corporate shilling pretty fragrantly. ” The answer to not paying living wages to real people is to invest in atomization so we can save money as corporate greed grows ever larger.” It’s the title you may have been looking for. I hope people run these things off the road. I have no issues with auto driving, when it’s not about corporate greed. There is no shortage of drivers. There is a shortage of ethics.
Benjamin Burkhardt
July 10, 2022 at 12:26 am
Convoying is very dangerous for other motorists on the road
Leopoldo Macaya
July 10, 2022 at 1:29 am
Tesla is going to kill all of these companies unfortunately and fortunately.
Ken Fromchicago
July 10, 2022 at 2:13 am
Why stop at two trucks? You could have 4, 6, 10, a dozen or more trucks, lead by a pair of drivers who alternate being on watch while the trucks drive themselves but a human is always on watch to take over the lead truck while the remaining trucks follow along. That would let a pair of truck drivers haul six times or more cargo than current truckers do–and do so without having pause for sleep breaks.
Instead of firing truckers, this magnifies their worth and allows them to do a lot more.
Mountain Doug
July 10, 2022 at 5:21 am
There are 9 million issued CDL-A licenses in the USA, only about 3 million actually driving a semi.
There is no driver shortage. There is a fundamental failure of the industry that has led to mistreatment, underpaid, lack of respect and other problems that leads to people leaving the industry in search of a better job.
luedriver
July 10, 2022 at 7:52 am
isn’t this solution just the cause of the problem to begin with?
it takes years to get a truck driver’s licence but apparently no one is willing to go through years just to see automated trucks become mainstream
leagueofotters
July 10, 2022 at 10:16 pm
You can get a class A CDL in a couple of months…..it doesn’t take that much time.
TattleTeller
July 10, 2022 at 9:27 am
This is insane. I wouldn’t feel safe. The real data on self driving anything is scary AF!
Pradeep Magan
July 10, 2022 at 10:00 am
Ship more products by rail then pay a decent wage to truck drivers
TT
July 10, 2022 at 2:12 pm
Self dtiving trucks?…”Look ma no brains”… insurance ? Good luck with that one, $$$$
Matthew Baynham
July 10, 2022 at 4:02 pm
Think about the value of everything that is being towed. The cost of the goods in the back with be either in the hundreds of thousands or millions and then think about the cost of the driver in man hours. The cost of the driver is such a small part of the costs that making everything autonomous and not having to pay a driver, is not going to make too much a difference in the overall cost.
Think about an example a car manufacture makes twenty cars which have a value of 50,000 euros each and puts them on one massive lorry. That’s a million euro worth of goods. Then the driver transports them a couple of hundred miles, that’s a couple of hours. So the cost of a couple of hours of labour will about about 15 Euros per hour say 30 euros for a trip. So when manufacturing 1 millions euros worth of cars you will save 30 euros if the lorry delivering them is autonomous. And that doesn’t include the cost of the autonomous system.
These autonomous systems might save a very small amount of money if the cost of the system is less that the cost of the drivers they are replacing. And lorry drivers are not paid much anyway.
What Ya Reading!
July 10, 2022 at 4:20 pm
The only way that driverless vehicles will work is by removing all human drivers from the road. It’s coming in a decade.
dansu92833
July 10, 2022 at 4:27 pm
Just wait and see when how those self-driving truck unload their goods. Insurance companies will love it to death.
Where We Hoop At wwhoopat
July 10, 2022 at 5:37 pm
I broker and dispatch. There is no driver shortage. Customer are paying more for shipping but drivers/rucking are not being paid more. Something major going to happen too many 3rd parties hurting rates.
SaL87 Escobar
July 10, 2022 at 5:39 pm
This trucks are too dangerous vehicles are way too heavy
Sipp
July 10, 2022 at 5:58 pm
Einride is already driving on public roads and has done so for over a year. It is not fully autonomous though, the driver is connected to several pods through 5G.
Sipp
July 10, 2022 at 6:00 pm
Let’s not mention Tesla, okay? 🤫
T Dillon
July 10, 2022 at 7:02 pm
TRAINS. The answer is trains!
We need to automate sorting of rail cars (containers) the same way the post office sorts mail by postal code.
Central stations – sort cars (containers) – truckers pick up the containers to deliver.
CHANCELLOR CORINTHOS
July 10, 2022 at 10:08 pm
Pay drivers I wanted to do OTR. I learned these companies don’t wana pay drivers. It’s not a shortage. Drivers realizing their worth
Shane W
July 10, 2022 at 10:30 pm
What about flat tires, mountains run away down hill areas, ice and snow etc? Long ways to go
leagueofotters
July 10, 2022 at 10:35 pm
This kind of reminds me when they were saying that there was a STEM worker shortage in the USA when there was no shortage.
Rick Smith
July 11, 2022 at 12:07 am
There is no shortage
Do us a favor , stick to smartphones and laptops
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July 11, 2022 at 3:37 am
This all sounds like different parts of the puzzle; if you take all the good from each vendor/company, you’ll be able to do “driverless” trucks all over the country 24/7 with little to no stops for resting.
Bunny Poop
July 12, 2022 at 6:50 pm
Nope ducky. Dot says they have to have a human being behind the wheel of a self driving truck. Not gonna risk lives behind a computer. Computers fail all the time. 😂 🤣
Octo Dinosaur
July 11, 2022 at 3:52 am
just pay truck drivers more and treat them better overall. And while youre at it do the same for everyone else that works
Mario Galeana
July 11, 2022 at 5:02 am
There’s no trucker shortage!!!
Kenneth Eugene
July 11, 2022 at 5:03 am
There’s not a driver shortage , there’s a supply Chaim issue coupled with inflation
James
July 11, 2022 at 5:31 am
Honestly the answer to the truck driver shortage is higher wages and some benefits but ok. I love tech as much as the next person but let’s try the simplest solutions first
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July 11, 2022 at 6:30 am
Tesla Semi?
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July 11, 2022 at 7:32 am
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Bunny Poop
July 12, 2022 at 6:49 pm
Dot has already said they have to put a human in a self driving truck. It’s not gonna be alone 😂
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July 11, 2022 at 3:21 pm
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Bunny Poop
July 12, 2022 at 6:48 pm
DOT already said a human being has to be behind the wheel at all times of a self driving truck 😂 🤣 not gonna be a solution.