Re:Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journ...
by ams6110 on Saturday April 09, 2016 @05:02PM
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The last mile is where automated trucks are least likely to work, though. They have to deal with local streets, pedistrians, cyclists, poor roads, unmarked roads, all the things that are most difficult for automated vehicles.
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Re:Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journ...
by shalmanese on Saturday April 09, 2016 @11:06PM
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Fortunately, autonomous trucking doesn't have to solve many of the tricky last mile problems before it becomes immediately economically advantageous. You could imagine local depots just outside of the city center where platoons pull into to switch from autonomous to human drivers.
Truckers would only have to work inside a local area rather than deal with the logistics of long haul routes and drive challenging surface streets rather than the soul numbing monotony of long interstates.