{"id":2100,"date":"2017-02-03T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T16:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/mag-despite-questions-autonomous-vehicles-rolling-sooner-than-expected\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:49:39","slug":"mag-despite-questions-autonomous-vehicles-rolling-sooner-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/mag-despite-questions-autonomous-vehicles-rolling-sooner-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Mag: Despite Questions, Autonomous Vehicles Rolling Sooner than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"

The potential for autonomous trucks to disrupt freight transportation\u2014or at least the recognition, by carriers and shippers,\u00a0of that possibility\u2014has surged in the past year, according to an updated survey by Princeton Consultants. But the industry still might not fully appreciate the pace of the changes that are coming, reports Fleet Owner.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur firm believes self-driving trucks are going to get here faster and have more impact than the survey results [showed],\u201d Princeton Consultants CEO Steve Sashihara said. \u201cIt\u2019s no longer crazy white cars driving around cities; it\u2019s starting to really happen. \u2026 There\u2019s some amazing, smart engineers working on this. On the highways, the technology is already here.\u201d<\/p>\n

In last year\u2019s survey, Princeton found that only 28% of respondents believed self-driving trucks would have a moderate or large impact, compared to 40% in the latest survey. The number who said there would be \u201cno real impact\u201d fell from 24% to 19% this year.<\/p>\n

As for adoption by the trucking industry, there\u2019s a \u201csolid\u201d business case to be made, he said, speaking in a Stifel Capital Markets conference.<\/p>\n

As Fleet Owner<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n

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Princeton projects implementation of self-driving truck technology in three phases:<\/p>\n

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  1. Truck autopilot, assisting a traditional driver who\u2019s still in the seat\u2014variations of which are currently being tested on U.S. highways;<\/li>\n
  2. Linehaul driverless, for on-highway freight moves (perhaps in pelotons) and with first\/last mile conventional drayage\u2014\u201cthink of this as the new intermodal,\u201d Sashihara said.<\/li>\n
  3. Door-to-door driverless, but not before the public believes the technology is safer than human drivers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And while that full, Level 5 autonomy is still some time in the future, the public is rapidly being won over by the rollout of self-driving passenger vehicles, Sashihara added.<\/p>\n

    \u201cWhen most people are trying to imagine this, [full autonomy] is where they\u2019re getting hung up. They\u2019re saying \u2018have you ever seen a truck back into a dock, or how many docks there are in a crowded city\u2014can a robot really do that?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cThe nice thing about step 2 is you don\u2019t have to worry about that\u2014it\u2019s the long-haul up and down the highways in pelotons; and the peloton itself may save 15% in fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Sashihara also discussed the disruptive potential of \u201cradical disintermediation\u201d of the freight transportation market. With 57% of the survey respondents anticipating a moderate to large impact, the sentiment was basically unchanged from a year ago.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI don\u2019t think we can sit back and just wait for things to happen \u2026 Whether we are a buyer of freight, a seller, or an intermediary, we have to improve our user friendliness and automation,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

    \u201cThere\u2019s a lot moving parts and non-obvious stuff, so it\u2019s hard to think that a couple of people will graduate from Berkeley and disrupt the trucking industry,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of inefficiencies in our marketplace, but I think it will be someone who is more of an insider who will say, \u2018how can we think bigger than most and come up with some disruptive ways of really moving the needle?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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