Self Driving Trucks and Theft.

[arakboss]

When self driving tractor trailer rigs become a reality, do you think we will see an explosion of cargo theft from the trucks. The trucks will likely come to a stop when presented with thieves roadblocks. It will be easy pickings on the lonely highways out there.

Self-driving semis may revolutionize trucking while eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs

“I think the most surprising thing there was that everyone we spoke to basically said ‘yeah, this can be done.’”

thehill.com

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[RicInOR]

What I would do If I were a trucking firm ...

Convoy. Nose to tail at speed on the Interstates.

 

[Flopsweat]

It will be interesting to see how they plan for this.

 

[parallax]

LOL can you imagine the carnage, when a computer glitch happens in a fleet of nose to tail high speed trucks running down the freeway. ( sorry just my evil side coming out)

 

[made in china]

Freaking pipe dream. Investors just jerking each other off laundering investment money.

But, devil's advocate, IF there could be such a thing as autonomous trucking, and the criminals (maybe unemployed truckers?) decided to rob these trucks, I suspect it'll first occur in CA, and look like this: