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The benefits of this would outweigh any negatives, especially if restricted to the interstate highway system. Drivers however, would still be needed to deliver the goods to their final destination. Better working hours, home everyday and safer for everyone once the bugs are worked out.
Shipping costs would go down, thus consumer purchasing power should go up.
Looks like a "win-win" for everybody...
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Except, not how it would work. All it would do is put tens of thousands of truckers out of jobs, and line the pockets of the corporations that implant this technology.
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05-01-2016, 08:16 AM
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And no one asked if anyone cared to have AI around.
Cloning and stem cells are hot button issues. And I am less scared of those than AI.
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I think he was just making a general statement, not to anyone. I mean, our world is becoming more and more technologically controlled...good or bad, if we like it or not...lol.
I believe it was California that was requiring driverless trucks to have an occupant. Though, not a "driver." A repairman? I'll try to find the article. This may create jobs, but rather than having 11 hour shifts of people driving straight, it is 24 hours a day, 8 hour shifts, being active in the cab. Or salary...maybe they "manage" the truck...lol
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If you knew the trucking industry, you'd know how optimistic some of that is. There are fair companies, like the one I work for, but many would cut that cost down to the bone.
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How many drivers can fix a computer at 45\55\65\75 MPH?
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It's a problem being solved at the same level of thinking that created it.
Alternatively: An Hyperloop sized to accommodate standard shipping containers, in the median. In train. No flat-car, just an air-tight puck that clips into the corner lifting lugs.
The space inside your typical cloverleaf would become a round-house that could switch 3 or 4 containers as a block.
All watched over by machines of loving grace.*
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Alternatively: An Hyperloop sized to accommodate standard shipping containers, in the median. In train. No flat-car, just an air-tight puck that clips into the corner lifting lugs.
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Hyperloop Technology to Be Studied as Shipping Tool - WSJ
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Hyperloop One and DP World will work together to study the viability of using hyperloop technology to unload ocean-container cargo at the Jebel Ali port in Dubai. Containers would travel swiftly via hyperloop to an inland depot, while minimizing the impact on local surface traffic.
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The DP World feasibility study will explore design, cost and financing options, and it will include studying the possibility of an offshore, floating hyperloop. That concept would enable containers to be taken from a ship, placed into the tube, then transported directly to an inland hub rather than requiring handling and taking up space on the docks—vastly reducing local congestion and emissions, while freeing up port real estate.
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