In the race to commercialize autonomous trucking, is the ability to take the load from the highway to a final destination via streets becoming a competitive must?
The race has long been underway for automated vehicle capability to enable long-haul driverless trucking. Going for the prize are significant established players , several new ones , while some have exited the space .
But, do shippers really want to add this new operational complexity? Of course not. However, given the vastly lowered cost of operations, along with safety and fuel economy benefits that come with AVs, they’ll do it. On the highway, automated vehicles must be able to perceive and handle any type of road hazard, even the very unusual occurrence of pedestrians and bicyclists. I imagine that the typical response to such a situation will be to slow down or stop on the shoulder and await further commands from Remote Assistance team. This is not operationally efficient but can likely be tolerated by the customer because it is an uncommon event.
Who’s on the street? Recently demo’s and video’s have shown that at least three long haul AV trucking developers are addressing the possibility of taking loads off-highway to a final destination.of street driving recently. It shows their truck exiting the highway via the off-ramp, stopping at a traffic signal, and then making a left turn onto an arterial street which has two lanes each way. Multiple traffic signals are handled and the truck eventually turns into a distribution center.
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