The future unmanned debut is not a self-driving car?

Introduction: The development of unmanned technology is in full swing. Major companies want their own driverless vehicles to get on the right track first. However, the debut of a self-driving car is not necessarily a small car, but it is beyond you. Expected truck.

The advent of the autopilot era

Tesla wants to be truly unmanned by 2018, and Uber has also conducted trials in Pittsburgh recently, allowing users to take autonomous vehicles. There are also many other companies that plan to pave the model for autonomous vehicles around 2020.

But before meeting a self-driving car, you are more likely to see a driverless truck in reality. There are two reasons:

Â· The first is the technology itself

Compared to urban transport, it is much easier to establish autonomous driving technology on the road. On the highway, there are fewer things that vehicles need to worry about. As we all know, the city is a mixture of pedestrians, cars, potholes and traffic cones. This means that driverless cars need to track a lot of things, so it is easy to cause them to ignore something.

In reality, such an example has already been presented. Uberâ€™s driverless car still needs a safety driver to accompany it, because driving in the city is very difficult. When we were riding a driverless vehicle, we actually needed drivers to take over the vehicle several times.

However, the current vehicle can handle the driving problem on the freeway relatively easily. Teslaâ€™s autopilot can merge and change lanes on the road, detect another vehicle driving into your lane, and drive on road traffic.

It's not just Tesla. Most of today's vehicles have semi-autonomous road driving functions, such as the Volvo XC90, which is equipped with cruise control and driver assistance systems. Such vehicles can even be driven autonomously on busy roads.

This does not mean that the vehicle can completely handle the road driving problem by itself. Otto is a self-driving start-up company, acquired by Uber for $680 million. Its self-driving vehicles still require someone to control the steering wheel just in case.

But Biz Carson from the commercial side boarded Otto's van and wrote:

"The roads are very self-driving, and most of the driving operations can be carried out as usual, and even give people a feeling of more than enough."

During driving, it does not need to be equipped with a driver like Uber's own car, but the same thing is that compared to a chaotic city, it is more adept at driving on a wide highway.

Â· In addition to the technology itself, the pursuit of driverless trucks has more economic significance

A report submitted by the Brookings Technology Innovation Center stated that due to the booming e-commerce, delivery vehicles and trucks will soon be introduced into self-driving vehicles. As promised to arrive within one day, people are more willing to purchase food and goods online. This is the gospel of the freight industry.

The report states:

"After careful consideration, you will find that the cost of hiring a large truck is usually more than $150,000. If you introduce automatic technologies such as cameras and sensors, compare the cost-effectiveness of self-driving cars with people-driven trucks, and look at the overall cost of automation. The extra cost of driving a car is lower."

Therefore, as more and more capital is invested into the delivery system, the self-driving truck will become more attractive because it can cut costs.

We have already seen the progress of adopting unmanned trucks. In addition to Otto, Daimler is also working hard to get his driverless car to go on road in 2020. In October 2015, the truck was driven on an open road to the car. It created history and marked the first time that large machinery was semi-automatically driven on the road.

Other companies that invest heavily in the delivery of networks may also look to the driverless trucks in the future.

In a report released in June, Deutsche Bank predicted that Amazon will conduct a shipment of self-driving trucks and drones. Given that Amazon has invested heavily in the development of transportation networks in the past few years, this does not seem like an extension.

Today's self-driving cars have received a lot of attention, and the reasons for concern are also very good. Driverless cars can improve traffic congestion while reducing the number of accidents. However, many obstacles still need to be overcome. It seems that we will see the drone truck first.

Via:BUSINESS INSIDER