For everyone saying good buy truck drivers. Clearly you’ve never driven a truck. The moment these trucks can automatically pull up to a destination, reverse itself into the loading dock, in the tiniest freaking spaces imaginable. Only then will I say goodbye to truck drivers. Until then, all this does is just cruise control, on steroids.
my TESLA model X can already do this, I can Remote Park it, even fold the mirrors, to fit in an impossible space, then when I'm ready to go home, I can Summon my Model X , and it can exit the space safely, and come pick me up.
*Why not electric ?* They started making this 4 years ago. It was already clear that batteries will be cheap enough for an electric truck. Volvo got the calculation. Tesla got it. Why not Mercedes ?
Refueling time and range. For the long term electric is the future, but the infrastructure isn’t there yet. These are trucks for today. The Tesla is the truck for tomorrow.
Because energy density of lithium ion batteries is far less compared to gasoline. So they have to add huge battery to the truck which will reduce the size of payload that can be transported. Also range of electric truck is less than gasoline truck.
What truck are you driving, also they say in 2020 they want that type of feature to be standard on all new vehicles being produced they don't care about ghost braking.
GE and other companies have already started working on them but they are having alot of push back from workers also stating those type of trains will take them out of a job eventually.
I think this is more realistic than the Tesla truck, the Tesla is the ideal future but we aren't there yet but will get there soon because it is progressing very quickly. Once it becomes available on more common truck designs and especially Diesel trucks, it will be the norm and I prefer this technology being standard as it just helps everyone remain a little safer without wanting the latest and greatest from a company who I think will receive much more realistic competitive vehicles.
So when a bunch of these things are platooning down the road all I would have to do is stand in front of them and they would all come to a stop they would all come to a stop and back up against each other for miles and miles and miles me and 6 people could probably shut down an entire city doing that that is a great idea I hope they do it I know one thing it's going to be a lot easier to steal Freight nowadays
As a truck driver does this make you in any way anxious? From my opinion there are too many things that an simi automated truck can't do for there to be any fear of losing drivers. The number one being crawling under a tractor and trailer every morning to verify the drum brakes are not out of adjustment, which I believe is the number one reason a truck is put out of service by DOT inspections.
'To get a full understanding of what this technology is like and how different it is, they let me drive in a truck that doesn't have any of this technology'. Wait.. How does that make any sense? That would only be helpfull if you could compare it to driving in a truck with the technology, which you didn't. Really don't see the purpose of that ride..
It’s a long way before you won’t need a driver, first of all just like Tesla, nobody will want to take a responsibility for that vehicle, because if freightliner, Volvo or any other brand will sell a vehicle and say its self driving and doesn’t need a driver, anything that will happen it will be a lawsuit and millions of dollars will be lost. Second thing means no driver, who will open doors and close and who will move tandem and who will back in, strap the freight do pre trip inspection and after inspection, who will fill up the truck, clean all sensors yeaaa. LTL drivers take a minute to 15 min on one stop, that means backing in to a dock, getting your paperwork, going in the dock, opening the door, gets unloaded and back in the truck, and getting to next stop. So that means in order to do all that you’ll need to pay people to have someone to inspect the truck at least twice a day, park that truck, open/close doors, on and on, it will end up costing more then paying that driver.
The goal is to eventually get rid of the driver. There should be no doubt about that. Whether it happens in a few years of fifty years is something I'm not qualified to comment on. But the cost benefits of full autonomy can't be ignored.
I worked hauling salt water to the disposal in the oilfield and also hauling flowback to disposal. Is an automated truck going to know which tank to pull, go up the catwalk to gauge the tank, hook up the hoses, turn on the pump and know how many barrels to pull? Will it be able to find a site that was recently occupied, be able to navigate around a rig and know which frack tank to pull from again being able to hook up its own hoses? If a strap is coming loose on a flatbed load inroute will it be able to see that and stop to tighten the strap? How will it check load securements inroute? Will it know if a load has shifted and if so what will it do about it?
We are always in favor of technologies that help keep our drivers safe, the public safe, and increase the overall well being of our drivers. Are professional truck drivers going to be replaced by self-driving trucks in 5 years? The answer is no. If that ever happens, and it's a BIG if, that is in the FAR FAR future.
@@soulsbourne it is actually. Many companies also have public autonomous vehicles like Mercedes etc and they produce way more vehicles than Tesla so they already have and if not will have even more test miles
Advisory condition of autonomous maneuvering should benefit the offensive drivers, since, twice the semi truck drivers have attempted to run down my family.
The typical CEO is in worse shape than your average truck driver. This stigma has been around truck drivers for a long time and is an extreme over generalization.
Bryson Spaulding people aren’t going to loose jobs over this. No matter how advanced autonomous driving technology gets, there will always be government regulations requiring a driver to be present at all times. The only fully autonomous trucks you will ever see (with no drivers) will be the trucks in shipping ports. Volvo has already designed an electric truck which slides under a trailer that helps move cargo around the yard. And they made a good point in that video, saying that “autonomous trucks only make sense in repetitive environments”. Thats the truth, for no matter how well we design an autonomous vehicle, it will never be able to handle every single situation on the road.
@@portlandcarlover Even at this moment in time that's not true. AI cars are already driving millions of miles on real roads right now, there is zero reason this would not work with trucks as well - even better, considering they naturally have a better view of the road. There will come a time when there will be no human needed aboard. That time is hopefully not far away.
@@jbobb793 However I am very qualified in AI. Driving a truck has nothing to do with what I said - certainly driving from pickup to delivery does not need a human. At all.
I drive a truck for a living and I can tell you that the amount of regulations we have and the amount of bad infrastructure we have this will not happen for another lifetime
It'll never happen. Do you know why they always do these tests in the southwest? Because it's perfect weather and perfect roadways. Get north of I70 in January and those trucks aren't gonna be driving themselves.
So, this is basically Tesla Autopilot 1 technology. In the same time frame, Tesla has gone from Autopilot 1 to about to test out full self driving on employee cars. Meanwhile Daimler did absolutely nothing.
@@triotomic2514 Those are called prototypes. So no, the Tesla Semi doesn't exist yet. And knowing Tesla, it will probably take another 5-10 years before it does.
@@ratmtbola there are many diffrent phases of prototypes the semi is productions ready car which means that it is going to be the exact same when it is being mass produced, the modle 3 for example was the same when it was first unveiled. The only reason why it is not being mass made is because the mini factory is not done yet it is 1/3 done, seeing that the factory is 1/3 done i am 100% certain that it won't take that long (the semi factory started to be built last year) so i would give it 4 years at max.
It's also adapted hardware that has been in cars for at least a decade, while the Tesla Semi is a completely different beast (apart from, of course, Tesla cars).
Varies from one jurisdiction to another, but if you have a licensed driver sitting next to you, and 'driver under instruction' plates showing, you're fine.
They do sonar and cameras all around and a forward-facing radar, no LIDAR if that is what you were thinking. Tesla AI will rely heavily on the cameras to replicate what a natural vision system can accomplish so that it can work in all the use cases where a human would be able to drive. Most other solutions rely heavily on mapping all roads carefully so that the AI does not have to understand and decide a lot on its own.
In my opinion, truck drivers will be more likely to be similar to commercial airliner pilots whose job is basically monitoring the computer do the things
TRUCKS CAN RUN 24/7 unlike humans which have to stop after 11-14 BEC OF HOURS OF SERVICE Companies can get 100X more loads done with the DRIVERLESS TRUCKS the profit margin is HUUUUUGE $$$$$$$ many truck drivers will be CUT
Exactly, find another job. Just like every job that gets technology to take over. No one is crying about all the horse riders etc are they? The world moves on.....
@@Fablemaner Yeah, thats the world we live in. New opportunities will come along, but we are looking at a future where not everyone will work. Which is why a lot of people support things like Universal Basic Income.
It's cool that one day fatal crashes will almost entirely be eliminated and sad for all the people who died because they were born before the technology was around
These trucks are fossil fuel burning but autonomous. Gone are the manual 18 speed trucks, almost anyone can drive these. Are these Diesel or natural gas? Seems they are stopping short of electric plus autonomous.
@@starshipdriver8536 Which means it is still being developed and hasn't been independently tested. I will happily wait for it to prove itself in the real world first.
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That truck has a notch
Diamond Kid dude.....you are right....
Pixel notch
For everyone saying good buy truck drivers.
Clearly you’ve never driven a truck.
The moment these trucks can automatically pull up to a destination, reverse itself into the loading dock, in the tiniest freaking spaces imaginable.
Only then will I say goodbye to truck drivers.
Until then, all this does is just cruise control, on steroids.
I honestly hope that day would never come.
Think of how many jobs and businesses would become useless.
Easy
Thats easy for AI. Parking is not the thing holding AI back at this stage, trust me.
my TESLA model X can already do this, I can Remote Park it, even fold the mirrors, to fit in an impossible space, then when I'm ready to go home, I can Summon my Model X , and it can exit the space safely, and come pick me up.
@@markplott4820 Yeah but that's a car, not a semi truck with a 53' dryvan attached.
the real question is...is it an autobot?
yes it is ;)
Asking the real questions.
Decepticon that runs on fossil fuels.
Tesla semi is optimus prime.
😂😂😂
no, that's galvatron
*Why not electric ?* They started making this 4 years ago. It was already clear that batteries will be cheap enough for an electric truck. Volvo got the calculation. Tesla got it. Why not Mercedes ?
Refueling time and range. For the long term electric is the future, but the infrastructure isn’t there yet. These are trucks for today. The Tesla is the truck for tomorrow.
Because energy density of lithium ion batteries is far less compared to gasoline. So they have to add huge battery to the truck which will reduce the size of payload that can be transported. Also range of electric truck is less than gasoline truck.
Hahahaha
Elon truck is not out (or in your hands) this year.
@@Slayer1111111111able Great answer! I agree with you.
Nah trucks have way more reasons to ice than regular cars.
I have similar technology in the rig I'm driving, but everytime the sensors sees a bridge or a paper bag in a road it wants to slam on the brakes.
James M or a 4 wheeler cuts in front of you. I almost jack knifed when sensor thought the bottom of the downgrade was a obstacle 🤦🏽♂️
@@timmyo3162 That is annoying AF!
@Jason Conover Exactly!
Amen.
What truck are you driving, also they say in 2020 they want that type of feature to be standard on all new vehicles being produced they don't care about ghost braking.
80% of all semi accidents are the cars fault
What about self driving trains that would be a lot easier
GE and other companies have already started working on them but they are having alot of push back from workers also stating those type of trains will take them out of a job eventually.
It seems like you should be saying "driver assist" or "level 2 autonomy"... not self-driving.
The auto trucks in Logan are probably the most realistic depiction of this technology 20 years from now
Literally the only thing I was thinking about 😂
I think this is more realistic than the Tesla truck, the Tesla is the ideal future but we aren't there yet but will get there soon because it is progressing very quickly. Once it becomes available on more common truck designs and especially Diesel trucks, it will be the norm and I prefer this technology being standard as it just helps everyone remain a little safer without wanting the latest and greatest from a company who I think will receive much more realistic competitive vehicles.
Tesla semi being made soon in LODI ca. will Deploy in 2020.
Driving an automatic semi truck is easy. It's how you back a loaded trailer that counts. 😆
So when a bunch of these things are platooning down the road all I would have to do is stand in front of them and they would all come to a stop they would all come to a stop and back up against each other for miles and miles and miles me and 6 people could probably shut down an entire city doing that that is a great idea I hope they do it I know one thing it's going to be a lot easier to steal Freight nowadays
Sam Phillips hungry people do things, right?
Lol
I’m a truck driver. I drive a 2019 Freightliner Cascadia with some of this technology.
SWEET!!!!
As a truck driver does this make you in any way anxious? From my opinion there are too many things that an simi automated truck can't do for there to be any fear of losing drivers. The number one being crawling under a tractor and trailer every morning to verify the drum brakes are not out of adjustment, which I believe is the number one reason a truck is put out of service by DOT inspections.
i hope this tech helps to relieve stress on your awfully long shifts
@@highjix So you hire engineers instead of drivers to do the same task, just on multiple trucks at a time.....
highjix There are many things that we have to do in our job that a autonomous semi cannot do and will never be able to do.
1:48 You have a truck driver's license? That's cool =D
What a great video. Perfect editing, camerawork and presentation. Thanks!
I think any truck which automatically identifies whether the driver is awake or sober is a great step forward... I dont see those here..
'To get a full understanding of what this technology is like and how different it is, they let me drive in a truck that doesn't have any of this technology'.
Wait.. How does that make any sense? That would only be helpfull if you could compare it to driving in a truck with the technology, which you didn't. Really don't see the purpose of that ride..
The show. And if someone let you drive a fkin tractor of course you'll accept
The job losses will be a lot of this technology.
MKBHD must love this truck technology.
It’s a long way before you won’t need a driver, first of all just like Tesla, nobody will want to take a responsibility for that vehicle, because if freightliner, Volvo or any other brand will sell a vehicle and say its self driving and doesn’t need a driver, anything that will happen it will be a lawsuit and millions of dollars will be lost. Second thing means no driver, who will open doors and close and who will move tandem and who will back in, strap the freight do pre trip inspection and after inspection, who will fill up the truck, clean all sensors yeaaa. LTL drivers take a minute to 15 min on one stop, that means backing in to a dock, getting your paperwork, going in the dock, opening the door, gets unloaded and back in the truck, and getting to next stop.
So that means in order to do all that you’ll need to pay people to have someone to inspect the truck at least twice a day, park that truck, open/close doors, on and on, it will end up costing more then paying that driver.
It might be a grueling job, but it's still a job
Do you drive these type of trucks?
Very interesting topic, thanks Verge Team =D
Be honest Verge. How much did Daimler pay you?
Autobots assemble!
Most of these accidents are caused by 4 wheelers, so there needs to be more taught at the DMV level
Lane keeping assist is pretty useful itself. Tried it out a on a Civic from SF to SD makes it super easy.
Personal injury lawyers worst nightmare.
that truck is a paid actor 😑
congratulations! good on you!
Hasn't volvo been doing this for years already?
The goal is to eventually get rid of the driver. There should be no doubt about that. Whether it happens in a few years of fifty years is something I'm not qualified to comment on. But the cost benefits of full autonomy can't be ignored.
So...it’s just blind spot detection, adaptive cruise control and lane assist...hasn’t that stuff came in fairly basic cars for 8 years now?
Nich Citarella yes and has been in trucks for years actually
Driven Trucking lmfaooo
I worked hauling salt water to the disposal in the oilfield and also hauling flowback to disposal. Is an automated truck going to know which tank to pull, go up the catwalk to gauge the tank, hook up the hoses, turn on the pump and know how many barrels to pull? Will it be able to find a site that was recently occupied, be able to navigate around a rig and know which frack tank to pull from again being able to hook up its own hoses? If a strap is coming loose on a flatbed load inroute will it be able to see that and stop to tighten the strap? How will it check load securements inroute? Will it know if a load has shifted and if so what will it do about it?
Dime-ler ? It’s Daimler as in daem-ler....
We are always in favor of technologies that help keep our drivers safe, the public safe, and increase the overall well being of our drivers. Are professional truck drivers going to be replaced by self-driving trucks in 5 years? The answer is no. If that ever happens, and it's a BIG if, that is in the FAR FAR future.
Tesla Semi is Better Tho...
Except this won't be 5 years late
@@soulsbourne it is actually. Many companies also have public autonomous vehicles like Mercedes etc and they produce way more vehicles than Tesla so they already have and if not will have even more test miles
@@soulsbourne waymo still better though
Nah. Let Tesla first actually come out first
Problems with electric still remain, charge time, range, that don't quite match petrol trucks. It's gonna be a while.
Yang2020!!!
Advisory condition of autonomous maneuvering should benefit the offensive drivers, since, twice the semi truck drivers have attempted to run down my family.
Smooth shifting brother @neatmike
Great vid guys and grils
I think I have seen some early tests of this parked on the side of the road in Denver on my way to work. Cool to realize I am not crazy.
These trucks have been on the road for a couple years now, they look exactly the same as these without the driver assistance tech
The truck specifically said something along the lines of Daimler self driving test, that's what peaked my interest
This same level of autonomy was a
The majority of commercial vehicle accidents are the fault of the "Honda Fit" driver.
Thats good. Truck drivers have terrible health because the bad work conditions. We need to eliminate these jobs
TheSpicyPotato 😂🤣 👍🏼 I’m in better shape and can lift more or run further then you could ever hope for.
The typical CEO is in worse shape than your average truck driver. This stigma has been around truck drivers for a long time and is an extreme over generalization.
Am I supposed to be impressed? Car makers have had this technology in their cars for years. Only difference her is the size of the vehicle.
The Tesla one looks lit. But I think this robotic one can be a huge problem security wise and also will lose jobs. But for the future of tech, neat.
Bryson Spaulding people aren’t going to loose jobs over this. No matter how advanced autonomous driving technology gets, there will always be government regulations requiring a driver to be present at all times. The only fully autonomous trucks you will ever see (with no drivers) will be the trucks in shipping ports. Volvo has already designed an electric truck which slides under a trailer that helps move cargo around the yard. And they made a good point in that video, saying that “autonomous trucks only make sense in repetitive environments”. Thats the truth, for no matter how well we design an autonomous vehicle, it will never be able to handle every single situation on the road.
@@portlandcarlover Even at this moment in time that's not true. AI cars are already driving millions of miles on real roads right now, there is zero reason this would not work with trucks as well - even better, considering they naturally have a better view of the road.
There will come a time when there will be no human needed aboard. That time is hopefully not far away.
@@MichaelGGarry u never drove a truck ,that's why u think that big dummy
@@jbobb793 However I am very qualified in AI. Driving a truck has nothing to do with what I said - certainly driving from pickup to delivery does not need a human. At all.
The Simpsons did it again
Saw this on Autogefuhl already!!
They better have someone in those trucks or people are gonna steal everything
"So, getting any self-driving trucks into the trucks to help out the driver"
How are you going to get a truck inside your truck? ;)
Lets see that this autonomus can run in ice roads
Yeah just wait a few months and the Tesla semi will make this look like tech from the 90s 😂
Volvo can still stop faster
Where is the self driving in the video??
Here after the thumbnail and title change.
Thud is pretty cool.
I'm never driving a car on the road again.
Side note: I can't drive
I drive a truck for a living and I can tell you that the amount of regulations we have and the amount of bad infrastructure we have this will not happen for another lifetime
It'll never happen. Do you know why they always do these tests in the southwest? Because it's perfect weather and perfect roadways. Get north of I70 in January and those trucks aren't gonna be driving themselves.
@@TheWhiteGuy82 well said these trucks can't even drive by themselves in a traffic jam in Manhattan.... let alone the winter
So, this is basically Tesla Autopilot 1 technology. In the same time frame, Tesla has gone from Autopilot 1 to about to test out full self driving on employee cars. Meanwhile Daimler did absolutely nothing.
yep, AP3 coming soon from Tesla.
VOLVO IS still available
Is there any hardware in the trailer itself? If it's not it seems like you could do more there but I guess trucks often switch trailers, rigth?
Good bye truck drivers
cobraki00 not any time soon. I still have another 20 years of swing your mother sell herself at the J.😂🤣
Is that a notch in that truck😂😂😂
as long as it is a electric truck i am fine but ya the Tesla semi is better.
Electric trucks don't have the energy density and quick refueling times like traditional diesel does. Diesel still is the preferred fuel choice.
Tesla semi doesn't even exist in a meaningful form yet so how can it be better?
@@rekless1110 yes, there are already 3-4 in the world that are being showed off to the componys that preordered them.
@@triotomic2514 Those are called prototypes. So no, the Tesla Semi doesn't exist yet. And knowing Tesla, it will probably take another 5-10 years before it does.
@@ratmtbola there are many diffrent phases of prototypes the semi is productions ready car which means that it is going to be the exact same when it is being mass produced, the modle 3 for example was the same when it was first unveiled. The only reason why it is not being mass made is because the mini factory is not done yet it is 1/3 done, seeing that the factory is 1/3 done i am 100% certain that it won't take that long (the semi factory started to be built last year) so i would give it 4 years at max.
But what about the panel gaps?
I guess this means the future is looking pretty bleak for lumpers and lot lizards.
Massive - 1981 , producers will understand...
Simpsons predicted this
Difference compared to Tesla - its on the marked right now and not somewhere in 2025.
It's also adapted hardware that has been in cars for at least a decade, while the Tesla Semi is a completely different beast (apart from, of course, Tesla cars).
don't sell me old stuff for new.
Are the steering wheels ever straight on these trucks?
Is he driving on a closed course or public roads with no CDL
Kody189 exactly! I was gonna say! He has a CDL?! Haha
Varies from one jurisdiction to another, but if you have a licensed driver sitting next to you, and 'driver under instruction' plates showing, you're fine.
*sigh* stop calling it a 'big rig'.
It's not a 'big rig', it's a prime mover
im pretty sure tesla only has cameras, not radars
They do sonar and cameras all around and a forward-facing radar, no LIDAR if that is what you were thinking. Tesla AI will rely heavily on the cameras to replicate what a natural vision system can accomplish so that it can work in all the use cases where a human would be able to drive. Most other solutions rely heavily on mapping all roads carefully so that the AI does not have to understand and decide a lot on its own.
There are about 60 million truck drivers in America, should of added that in ur of how many households they will be crushing soon.
Nope, only 4 million.
Im sorry im not able to help you with that yet. But I'm allways learning.
The guy is clearly hired by freighter. Not an objective review.
SEAN!
When are where can some buy one of those.?
In my opinion, truck drivers will be more likely to be similar to commercial airliner pilots whose job is basically monitoring the computer do the things
This is not self driving...this is a joke.
Wait for Tesla to show us what’s really exciting
That's a pixel like notch on the windshield of that truck. Hate to see it.
TRUCKS CAN RUN 24/7
unlike humans which have to stop after 11-14 BEC OF HOURS OF SERVICE
Companies can get 100X more loads done with the DRIVERLESS TRUCKS
the profit margin is HUUUUUGE $$$$$$$ many truck drivers will be CUT
Logan 2017 predicted it
A grueling job that pays well in a world that wants to only pay price of electricity
EDC!!!
1 camera, 2 radar sensors. Yeah a self driving truck. Lol Tesla has outdone you lot
Ur wack, should of driven an 18 speeder
I wonder how the truckers are going to react once they're out of a job
find another job?
Exactly, find another job. Just like every job that gets technology to take over. No one is crying about all the horse riders etc are they? The world moves on.....
@@MichaelGGarry what job specifically because not enough jobs to go around as it is.
@@Fablemaner Yeah, thats the world we live in. New opportunities will come along, but we are looking at a future where not everyone will work. Which is why a lot of people support things like Universal Basic Income.
The truck has same notch as pixel 3 xl
It's cool that one day fatal crashes will almost entirely be eliminated and sad for all the people who died because they were born before the technology was around
it would be great to get on a highway hit self drive then chill in the back ....
*first ride in new 2019 freight liner
It's coming in 2224
Pavan Mankame no only your mom.
Mercedes......
Design is so inefficient, there is no need to keep the old design for the sake of it. It would be funny to calculate the kms lost by this poor design.
Jeremy Hamaoui not as funny as reading your stupid comment.
@@timmyo3162 take your pills and chill!
Optimus Prime
Bicyclist?
This is like a joke compared to what Tesla has...
These trucks are fossil fuel burning but autonomous. Gone are the manual 18 speed trucks, almost anyone can drive these. Are these Diesel or natural gas? Seems they are stopping short of electric plus autonomous.
Tesla Semi is nicer , faster, and cheaper to run.
And doesnt really exist yet, like most of Musks BS.
@@MichaelGGarry It's already being spotted at the superchargers with pictures taken.
@@starshipdriver8536 Which means it is still being developed and hasn't been independently tested. I will happily wait for it to prove itself in the real world first.