Tech giant Google is predicting that driverless vehicles will be ready for use on public roads by 2020. They claim by 2023 these vehicles will be capable of reacting to varying weather conditions; in 2025 the first autonomous lorries will start to appear on the market; and in 2030, driverless lorries will become the norm.
What makes driverless vehicles potentially so alluring to large UK haulage companies is the amount of money that will be saved by making the switch from manned to unmanned haulage. Lorries will be able to operate for longer periods of time and would, theoretically Mitchell Robinson Knicks Jersey , be less likely to get into road accidents.
It is worth noting, however, that such shift will inevitably lead to a change in the occupational landscape of the haulage industry. Computer hardware and software will take centre-stage, meaning that hard working hauliers will have to adapt by specialising in fields automated vehicles would be unable to handle – and will still be plenty (if not more than now) of those.
Positive Changes for the Well Prepared
Autonomous lorries will offer advantages that many of the larger UK haulage companies will be unable to ignore. Assuming that driverless vehicles meet the goals that Google has projected Damyean Dotson Knicks Jersey , haulage companies that refuse to adopt driverless technologies may find their competitive edge being stripped away by others who do choose to utilise the technology.