That’s nothing. Tesla promises an autonomous coast to coast drive sometime in 2017.
Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
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Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. Imagine believing you have accomplished something by hauling butter 3000 miles to Pennsylvania.
Your comment and the parent's are snarky and ungenerous. The accomplishment is the self-driving truck crossing 3k miles, not the butter contained within.
Actually the butter is the important thing in this article. The self-driving revolution isn't going to enable beautiful and wondrous accomplishments. Instead, it's going to enable international megaconglomerates to more cheaply exploit the desperately poor migrant workforces of far-away places. That's all you're going to get out if it: butter at the same price, but from Tulare County and the butter company saves ten cents per ton by cutting out the trucker.
Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment and the parent's are snarky and ungenerous. The accomplishment is the self-driving truck crossing 3k miles, not the butter contained within.
To be honest that's not entirely obvious from the title. I was left wondering why butter was worth mentioning if the point was self-driving.
They mention it because there's a longer distance self driving semi-truck record, but it wasn't hauling anything.
I imagine the point is that it hauled a refrigerated fragile load, and it arrived unscathed.
Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
#14"What is my purpose?"
"You pass butter."
Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. Imagine believing you have accomplished something by hauling butter 3000 miles to Pennsylvania.
Your comment and the parent's are snarky and ungenerous. The accomplishment is the self-driving truck crossing 3k miles, not the butter contained within.
It's not a first without the butter:
> San Francisco-based self-driving truck startup Embark Trucks, which last year completed a five-day, 2,400-mile cross-country trip. But that truck carried no freight.
Still, you'd think they'd ship something in abundant supply in California and short supply in Pennsylvania. Optimism, maybe.
Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment and the parent's are snarky and ungenerous. The accomplishment is the self-driving truck crossing 3k miles, not the butter contained within.
To be honest that's not entirely obvious from the title. I was left wondering why butter was worth mentioning if the point was self-driving.
It’s a refrigerated good. No human is safely driving from California to Pennsylvania in 3 days. If you need something fresh, this is basically telling supermarkets and distributors that robots can get it to you faster.
Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
#17This is an impressive feat but something is confusing.
Picture caption:
> A safety driver was behind the wheel, but the truck drove _mostly_ autonomously.
Body text:
> A Silicon Valley startup has completed what appears to be the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck
> There were zero “disengagements,” or times the self-driving system had to be suspended because of a problem, Kerrigan said.
What is the "mostly" qualifier in the picture caption referring to?
Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
#18https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/plusai-autonomous-truck... : Level 4 autonomy. more details here [..] The company has run smaller-scale pilots across the U.S. and has operations underway in Beijing and Shanghai, China, Kerrigan said.
The delivery for Land O' Lakes is the first where Plus.ai has been able to disclose companies involved. Kerrigan said he was unable to confirm whether Plus.ai would run similar deliveries for Land O' Lakes. He said the trip allowed Plus.ai to collect data on driving conditions, including rain and snow, which is crucial to ensuring the technology is safe for mainstream use.
TuSimple, another autonomous trucking company, is planning to run fully autonomous commercial freight deliveries in 2021. The company's trucks also run at L4 autonomy, and completed pilots delivering cargo for UPS and the U.S. Postal Service in Arizona this year.
Amazon, Google and other major companies have explored using autonomous trucks to speed up delivery times, address the driver shortage, or potentially phase out drivers.[..]
Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
#19“the truck drove mostly autonomously.”
That last 10% is going to be a lot of work.
Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. Imagine believing you have accomplished something by hauling butter 3000 miles to Pennsylvania.
Your comment and the parent's are snarky and ungenerous. The accomplishment is the self-driving truck crossing 3k miles, not the butter contained within.
It certainly is a feat to be celebrated as a technologist.
As a citizen, I wonder if it’s a moment our children will celebrate or remember as the beginning of an end.