Alone long and easy drivable roads like highways or german autobahns would have a huge benefit and simple to automate.
You woound only need local people to grab the truck at a parking spot close by to drive them to the target location.
That alone would help long road truckers to see their familys and not having to sleep in their trucks. It would save costs and would make it saver for everyone if all the trucks drive automatically.
BMW and other EV developers can already drive on a lot of german autobahn hands free.
What i also don't understand, if i really want the benefit of self driving car, I only need it when i'm driving long or when i'm intoxicated. Tbh. let me just record the road from bar to my home, let me drive it for a few times until my car knows that direction and done.
There is not a magic portal opening up when you are able to optimize ever aspect away of living and you will gain access to enlightment and everything is different.
And don't get me wrong, I have no clue how our society would look like if everything is done by ai and robots because we as a society don't talk about it and don't give everyone the resources they want or need if they have suddenly no 'drugdgery' anymore.
Give me a million today and i will spend the next 10 years rebuiling an old castle and I will have A LOT of fun doing this. Let me check, my bank balance is not at one million.
Instead i have to pay for a lot of things and then I have to work for 40 hours. Suddenly i'm great at my job, get valued but this is just Drudgery even if its complex work. Its work for someone else which doesn't matter to me.
Funny enough, i'm 38 now and often enough thankless and 'pointless' busywork sometimes feels like a virtue.
But only for me because I have the feeling i lived out my normal environment and i'm not rich enough yet to expand so I can become busy again in a more meaningful way. Specifically having a big house/workshop to do things in my future workshop.
I mean standing there for 10 minutes and giving them my passport to give me a plastic card with a digital code has very little to do with human touch.
I want that human touch at a bar perhaps but not at a reception.
If your critisism is only about the reception part: There has to be a transition part and a 'let a human do it for a bit' or 'here is a complicated case please robot move aside i'm here'.
You woound only need local people to grab the truck at a parking spot close by to drive them to the target location.
That alone would help long road truckers to see their familys and not having to sleep in their trucks. It would save costs and would make it saver for everyone if all the trucks drive automatically.
BMW and other EV developers can already drive on a lot of german autobahn hands free.
What i also don't understand, if i really want the benefit of self driving car, I only need it when i'm driving long or when i'm intoxicated. Tbh. let me just record the road from bar to my home, let me drive it for a few times until my car knows that direction and done.