Tomorrow 
when I wake up. 
lol. 
ultimately there wont even be any trucksâŚ
have you ever watched Star Trek ?
just type the co-ordinates in, and beam your delivery to a receiving dockâŚ
The technology is here, and most of it is being used one way or another. DAF has all the technology in the truck (AEBS, ACC, lane departure warning), to run a truck down a motorway on 'auto pilot â , it only needs to connect the lane departure system to the steering, and hands free driving is possible. But the problem will be integration with the rest of the traffic.
My truck has all of that,and itâs totally unreliable.
Trukkertone:
ultimately there wont even be any trucksâŚ
have you ever watched Star Trek ?
just type the co-ordinates in, and beam your delivery to a receiving dockâŚ
Sent out as curtainsider loaded with cages and arrived as a thawed out load of frozen chips. 
No chance of commuters using it instead of the bus either.On that note I even avoid lifts wherever possible and use the stairs. 
Winseer:
âŚNot forgetting âNo managed motorwaysâ⌠How does a robot vehicle doing 50mph in lane 1 get around the sudden breakdown in front of you?
Picture the scene if itâs still a mixture of manually driven vehicles v the robots.The John Connor type resistance ( led by me ) then sets the machines up for numerous types of potential collisions with each other or street furniture.A bit like Tempest pilots v V1âs.( They would of course have to clearly identify the robotically driven vehicles from manually driven ones as part of that ).
You can pull it apart on so many levels.
Makes me wonder if some people on here queue outside the Apple shopâŚwhenever they release a new version of iphone
Juddian:
ââIn a press release, Tesla said the incident was a tragic loss, but noted that it was the first fatality in 130 million miles of Autopilot driving. The company compared that to regular driving, which incurs one fatality per 94 million miles in the US.ââCareful use of words form them there, wonder how many minor or major accidents there have been which have left the victims anything from bruised to comatose.
I suspect weâre safe for another generation or three.
The jobs in this automation malarkey are no different to the ones in the made up global warming scam, self perpetuating and hostile to any naysayers.
+1 this is a world of wanabees.They cannot build a train network that works without human input.Imagine a road network in the hands of a computer!!!
All a load of bollox
Juddian:
âThe jobs in this automation malarkey are no different to the ones in the made up global warming scam, self perpetuating and hostile to any naysayers.
Hmmm. So just over 200 years ago there were 800 million people on the planet, and now there are over a billion cars on the planet. Apart from everything else, are you sure this wouldnât make a difference?
Harry Monk:
Juddian:
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made up global warming scam, self perpetuating and hostile to any naysayers.Hmmm. So just over 200 years ago there were 800 million people on the planet, and now there are over a billion cars on the planet. Apart from everything else, are you sure this wouldnât make a difference?
Only if you believe that burning fossil fuels causes so called global warming.In which case why pick on just cars and donât you think the governments would have closed down the whole oil,gas and coal industries world wide if it was actually true.Itâs as believable as Sturgeon or for that matter Norway shouting about global warming and being âGreenâ while at the same time basing their respective economic policies on oil exports. 
Meanwhile the global warmist propaganda continues with the TV weather reports claiming that 18 C is the correct temperature for late May and calling the usual cold fronts from the Northwest wiping out our Springs and Summers in recent years, âcoolerâ âfresherâ weather as though weâd been suffocating in tropical heat and humidity of usually less than 20 C if weâre lucky.When itâs clear that the temperature here depends on which way the wind blows and the Northerly winds are as cold as ever according to the time of year.With it being anyoneâs guess as to whatâs going wrong with the jet stream and certainly nothing to do with the continuous cold plunges it keeps bringing from the North being any warmer.On that note surely weâd expect to see much longer and hotter Summers over the last 40 years than that of 1976.Oh wait probably explained by the âhockey stickâ graph rigging scandal.
No surprise that the believers only want to listen to the so called 'science that confirms their own hysterical unfounded theory while calling any opposition unscientific.All based on Carl Saganâs ideas that CO2 supposedly cooked Venus not itâs distance from the Sun combined with its atmospheric pressure.
Carryfast:
Winseer:
âŚNot forgetting âNo managed motorwaysâ⌠How does a robot vehicle doing 50mph in lane 1 get around the sudden breakdown in front of you?Picture the scene if itâs still a mixture of manually driven vehicles v the robots.The John Connor type resistance ( led by me ) then sets the machines up for numerous types of potential collisions with each other or street furniture.A bit like Tempest pilots v V1âs.( They would of course have to clearly identify the robotically driven vehicles from manually driven ones as part of that ).
You can imagine the sceneâŚa fleet of Allegroâs and Morris Marinaâs turning up at Skynet HQ armed to the teeth with history books 
Yeah but this might happen âŚ
Ahhhhh, but what if âŚ
Thank god for guys like Elon Musk.
Probably a long way off. Electric cars/hybrids have been a thing for over 20 years and have never really caught on due to the price and maintenance and lack of fast charge stations(which is nowhere near as fast as filing up a car).