damn things will kill us all. 40 tons of shit barreling down the highway. waiting for a computer glitch.

awesome let's put more American workers out of jobs! yayyy...smh

The advancement of technology will always have a positive and negative effect on human life. This will be very beneficial to companies that want to reduce the cost of paying an employee but it will definitely have a negative effect on the workers in the truck driving industry. Greed will destroy this planet like it's already doing. I pray for the future

demm robots arh takin arh jobssss

Automation will eventually take all the fun out of life. Think wall-e

that means we can rob them trucks!

technology is good, but it will leave thousand of people with out a job.

ha ha ha ! Wait until that snow starts packing those sensors with layers of ice and when it rains all that road slop build up too ... that $168 billion in labor saving per year will be eaten up in insurance costs and damage claims ...

From a business standpoint I can understand that a driverless truck would be ideal because it's cheaper and more efficient. I would hope that there would still be a human occupant inside these trucks to monitor and make sure everything is running smoothly and in case of emergencies be able to take control.

robbing trucks just got a lot easier

I'm not too afraid... Imagine someone blocks the road, with the intent of stealing the content of the truck. The truck can't react to that. A human would react to being highjacked.

Wouldn't wanna be in front of that truck when one of those sensors take a shit lmaooo!!!!

im a trucker and im warning yall if those things steal jobs were fucking burning them

The next American Truck Simulator DLC.

Yall need to KZfaq Andrew Yang... only guy talking about this

Lol it already makes me nervous just driving next to them on the highway, this really takes it up a level.

Why not both? Have an operator who rides and monitors everything, does maintenance, etc. They get to sleep whenever they want, play XBOX, talk with friends and family. Seems like a dream job to me. I guess until the truck's AI is presented with an unusual emergency and decides to crash the truck and kill you... or some hacker on the road gets pissed and changes your route to buttfuck nowhere.

What if the road closed and you to use local twisting roads,

But yet still people are worried about Mexicans.

I don't know about any of you guys and gals, but i'm for the jobs instead of these sketchy computers. what Do you like more?

Maximum Overdrive will happen someday

Question to ask is how many humans are allowed to die before you shut down the ideal !

I am a truck driver and can say for a fact this will never happen where it will replace the driver. There are way to many variables to consider for this to work 100 percent unmanned. It will be just like auto pilot on an airplane but you still need a pilot in the cockpit just in case something fails. And it is a computer it can and will fail not to have a human inside would be catastrophic and cost many lives. What this can do is make every truck a team truck with one driver being human and one being computer based allowing the truck to run 24 /7 just like a team operation with two drivers but a computer cannot fuel itself (not even if it was an electric truck because it cannot plug itself in), back up into a dock, open doors, drop and hook trailers, take emergency procedures when something goes wrong like a blown steer tire and what about driving in city in heavy traffic conditions with pedestrians and all that. Highway driving is only some of the travel time but it still must get off the freeway and navigate in your neighborhoods to get to the stores, warehouses and all that. This will happen to some degree but they can never take the human out of the mix if they could airplanes would already be flying without humans in the cockpit and no, not even unmanned aircraft even though there aren't any people onboard a person is still flying it or can disengage autopilot and fly it via satellite uplink. But unmanned craft has been limited to military stuff where saving a pilot from dyeing makes sense so they send in a drone with missiles instead. There has never been and will never be any unmanned commercial flights that have passengers on them ( I would never fly on a plane that didn't have a pilot onboard) and there will never be any unmanned commercial vehicles on American highways. To trust a bunch of circuits and wires with the level of trust required when lives are at stake is just to great. Think about the plane that landed on the Hudson river or the one that had the female fighter pilot behind the controls. in both of these cases in a vehicle that can fly itself from a to b using autopilot it was the HUMANS that saved lives not the computer. Had there not been pilots on those planes I promise you many people would have been killed on both flights.

Pretty easy when you have boring straight roads.

This segment originally aired Oct. 25, 2016, on VICE News Tonight on HBO. Self-driving cars may be on their way, but a driverless truck has already arrived. Self-driving truck company Otto completed its first delivery in October, a 120-mile journey through Denver traffic with no one behind the wheel. In August, Uber bought Otto for $680 million. Morgan Stanley estimates that self-driving trucks could save the trucking industry $168 billion a year, and about $70 billion of that would come from labor savings. About 3.5 million Americans work in trucking, one of the last well-paying fields available to people without a college education. Self-driving technology could soon replace some of those workers. Self-driving trucks are expected to take over highways sooner than self-driving cars because highway driving is an easier technological challenge to solve. “There’s hopefully no pedestrians, there’s no stop lights, it’s easier to automate or have a self-driving vehicle on the highway most of the day,” Otto co-founder Lior Ron told VICE News correspondent Ravi Somaiya in Denver. Otto trucks use a variety of sensors to read the road to decide when to accelerate, steer, or hit the brakes. Otto claims its technology is likely much safer than a human driver. Otto is still testing its trucks, but it expects to sell a kit for tens of thousands of dollars to make any truck drive itself. Read: "Even Stephen Hawking doesn’t know if AI will be good or bad" - bit.ly/2fIHDQH

Good luck convincing the insurance companies you think its safe sleeping in the back while the truck drives itself. It might be a while before this really takes off.

Lol...i like to see this self driving truck drive in Atlanta, LA, especially NY burrough.... Damn self driving truck probably malfunction 😂😂

I hope truck drivers are polishing up their resumes. The future is coming quick!

The trucks are currently only able to drive on a highway. A human will still need to be involved for parking and unloading. Airplanes have autonomous pilots, but still need human interaction for take off, landing, and taxiing.

I'm sorry but you can't predict when an accident is gonna happen,the human mind will always be smarter.

**computer glitching voice** "ERROR. ERROR. CANNOT COMPUTE. **swervs. kills hitchhiker**

so who's liable if the computer gets into a accident ?

"Im pretty bullish on the technology, in 20 years its just the trailer" Wow 20 years, how bullish of you. Sorry but you will be jobless in under half that time.

As being a 22 year old car hauler I just don't trust these 😂

I dont think we need em, we have drivers... This is to berich the rich.. What u could use it for is that u turn it on and then the driver goes to sleep, increases the productivity of the system

What happens when the truck needs fuel? Or someone hacks into the computer system and sends a truck down a sidewalk at 60 mph. I can see partially autonomous trucks in the future, but not fully autonomous in my lifetime.

Another Simpsons prediction, lol.

they shoulda had this on the first fast and furious lol

The Simpsons predictions strike again

If you think about it this just puts majority of a truck companies profit into the pockets of a select few. taking from the poorer workers it's incredibly selfish and continues the problem of the 1% of people having majority of the world's money......... it's really a horrible thing short term!

All these people need to be rubbed out.... why would they want to put people out of work when life already hard for some. They need to Jimmy Haffa these individuals and their tech burnt to the ground.

some robbers can easily intercept the trailer

Trains are self driving. Still need a operator though. Its pretty ignorant to think that the only thing truck drivers do is drive the truck. Also pretty ambitious to think fuel station and shipper receivers are going to change there infrastructure for the benefit of the trucking companies.the day calculators stop giving error codes is the day you can start worrying about losing your job.

And that is prototype phase. Phase 1 is actually having working trucks with drivers still in them for just in case situations. Phase 2 is fully automated trucks, no human interaction other than an IT/mechanic guy making sure software/engine is good to go. That guy can go on a hike now, but in 10 or so years, he won't be able to afford it. lol

Nice, I have seen one in Germany myself its very cool!!

Driving a truck on the highway is easy. Lets see it pull through a jammed parking lot and backup to a loading dock without hitting anything. Where I work, the only way for the driver to manage is to pull around the building and into oncoming traffic (that he gets out and stops first) so he has room to reverse in. No way an automated rig will be able to manage all of the nuances and differences once off of the highway. There will need to be human intervention.

Ingenious solution to a problem that should not exists.....we solved this long long time ago, in-fact mid 1850s. Back then, we called it a train and a railroad.

Uber wants your jobs.Period.

It'll never come to fruition. Computers can't drive through snow or problem solve environmental issues. Not only that but the computer won't learn how to back up the truck in every situation. It *might* can succeed in auto-piloting down the interstate, but that's it. In which case this will be a good thing for drivers because they can just take a nap while the truck drives itself down the interstate doing a 400 mile drive.

Self-driving semi-trucks? Simpsons did it!

*and next are the taxi drivers...all the delivery service companies we can imagine...tellepizza...post offices...amazon...etc, etc, etc...*

awesome 70 billion dollars worth of screwed families and no jobs. GJ technology. Sadly advancement isn't always best.

I am a truckdriver from Norway. How can a robots lay snow chains ? We have between 6-8 months of snow. I wish you good luck with that! haha

oh, look a man literally watching a machine take his job.

A conversion kit? Oh, now that's going to ensure the change will sweep through the industry really quickly once it's underway.

what happens when the truck hits a deer and breaks sensors, when ice blocks sensor readings, heavy rains fog, mud etc iv been trucking 11years and I pull a flatbed which requires in transit load adjustments, tarp readjustment etc, this self driving will only cater to a specific nitch of the transport industry

Did you ask how this would deal with construction where the truck would need to change lanes 1/2 mile or more in advance? Or how it would deal with drivers who refuse to let it change lanes?

My father's company owns 30 trucks, there's no way in hell we're going let our trucks out in the wild alone. if something goes wrong we need a driver there to fix the problem immediately

THE SIMPSONS predicted this!!!

I never knew I wasn't supposed to be making good money outside of trucking without a college degree. That statement shows a total disconnect from the actual job market.

Self driving - how they open and close the trailer doors? I guess the forklift operator need to do that

Wait did he say that jake, has to set the computer that has to check driving conditions. No complete stops, left or right hand turns. You fools , until hooking and filling up. If man is in that truck. He only gets to driving 11 hrs in a 14 hour work day. And even to assist that machine you still gotta have a cdl driver. And once again , why should I pay insurance. Too drive beside a unmanned missile.

Why would the government allow a technology to make over a million people redundant?

yay! so does this mean I get welfare, or that that me n my family get to starve while I train for new employment? drivers already don't make that much. especially the over the road drivers. so what's the ultimate plan? make us so poor we have to depend on government? then where will that money come from? Why would a company even market a product if everyone is getting everything for free? what would be the point? Self Driving vehicle's are cool n what not, but there's more to this than being cool n saving pennies for a few really rich ppl. when this is the norm where is all the money gonna come from for all the ppl put outta work? ppl like me, with a family to support

I've always dreamed of the day cars would drive themselves. I could sleep on the way to work if my car would drive itself.

They pretend like Auto-Pilot is a new technology. News flash. Almost EVERY commercial airline has an auto-pilot feature. They still require two pilots or co-pilots to be awake, alert, and in the cockpit. This is highly dangerous and carelessness to leave the driver's seat empty.

Awesome video. Thank you for sharing.

I never knew I wasn't supposed to be making good money outside of trucking without a college degree. That statement shows a total disconnect from the actual job market. I'm guessing the writers got suckered into a degree.

We'll keep our jobs more than likely and still make the same...or even more money. Reason for that is, DOT laws state that a driver can only drive for 11 hours and work for 14 by law. So after you've driven your 11 hours you have to shut it down for the evening and get some sleep until you can start driving again in the morning. With this system, the truck can continue driving while the driver sleeps waiting for his reset. In other words, the truck never stops and the driver is still in the truck to drive during day light hours. This will increase revenue for the trucking companies while also allowing the drivers to keep their jobs and pay.

People will look back on this time as the technological revolution.

So what happens when the technology fails?

Eventually most jobs other than robot repair are going to be gone. This is so god damn foolish.

Self driving 2023 going live

I like this stuff Vice! :)

all you have to do is stop a car before the truck, and rob it...EZ

What if it gets hacked 😱

your forgetting truck drivers do more then just drive truck. They have to refuel vehicle, check cargo, load and tie down cargo.

Better put a computer guided sentry on the trailer while you’re at it too. People are just going to stop the truck by blocking all the lanes and rob the trailer.

Alright truck drivers, time for you to head to school and learn to build robots

Nice truck.Nice ride, thank you for sharing this video.

Don't worry. Truckers already have plans in place to take care of this little problem

They should call this truck the job killer

How much would one of these kits be..? And how well does it down off major roads. Like in docking areas that are tight getting by and backing up.

Fuck that, I've seen Maximum Overdrive.

Literally a million crashes a year happen in our world (Many minor dings) 1000 crashes by robotic trucks (99.9% less crashes) would see a cry for them to be abolished to return to human drivers

this will be easier for hackers and cyber terrorist to hack and slam it to people or building.... the company's main goal is to save money. SMH.. can't wait to see when theirs a glitch or an off signal that led to an accident.

Has to be safer than the humans behind the wheel.

Doesn't this mean an increase in security guards (with maintenance skills) since someone has to make sure the package gets to the receiver?

Simpson’s predicted this, self driving trucks that only truck drivers know about.

Simpsons did it.

I'm reminded of the guy who thought he had a self driving Winnebago. He set cruise control on the freeway and went in the back to make a coffee! The inevitable happened at the first bend when he crashed and was seriously injured. Only in the USA could you act so dumb and still successfully sue for damages. Is the average American assumed only to have the intelligence of a five year old?

Welcome to robot era!

Isn’t this equivalent to airplane flying in autopilot? This technology won’t replace the driver just assist in making driving easier and less stressful

What will happen if one rock hit the front tire at 70 MPH hahahaha

Hope that developer doesn't mind blood on his hands.

Put a driver sleepin in the back just in case shit hits the fan, sometimes these trucks carry expensive kit.

more than meets the eye.

Deer strike and all hell breaks loose!

Good Lord, this is happening people, you can't really stop it

It's all cool until it crashes into traffic and kills bunch of people.