Recently, the news of the implementation of the radish run in Wuhan has exploded in the circle, and many netizens have joined the discussion, and everyone has mixed reviews for it. The release of a new policy is bound to attract widespread attention, with the trial operation of driverless online car-hailing, how far away is the full popularization of driverless trucks?
In fact, as early as 2015, Continental has completed the road test of the first driverless bus in China, which shows that Continent's driverless technology has entered a new stage. In 2022, a mainland company took the lead in launching an unmanned truck project, building a closed route - Jiuquan to Mingshui green digital special road, the project is expected to be fully implemented in 2025, this channel will completely revolutionize the logistics and transportation mode, after completion, all use fully unmanned hydrogen heavy trucks for operation, the first batch of 600 hydrogen heavy trucks are planned to be put into operation.
Second, on July 1 this year, Post EMS joined hands with Plus.ai Technology Co., Ltd., which has L4 full-stack autonomous driving technology research and development capabilities, to open up a dedicated line for mass production of autonomous driving heavy trucks in North China and South China, focusing on trunk logistics. The self-driving truck used this time comes from the JAC K7+ smart heavy truck, which is jointly built by JAC and Plus, which not only has advanced functions such as autonomous overtaking, pullover, merge prediction and partial construction avoidance in various extreme weather conditions, ensuring that the whole transportation process is accident-free, but also can reduce fuel consumption by up to 10%, truly reducing costs, increasing efficiency and improving quality. In addition, Plus.ai has signed contracts with a number of leading logistics companies to undertake different types of logistics services for express LTL vehicles. Not only JAC, but also Sinotruk Group, one of the three giants of trucks in China, is also carrying out innovative research and development in the field of driverless trucks and intelligent driving trucks.
If driverless trucks are fully popularized in the future, what impact will it have on cardholders and the transportation industry?
First of all, the future career of cardholders, the popularity of driverless trucks in the future will directly affect the employment opportunities of truck drivers, and many logistics companies will also use driverless trucks, resulting in many truck drivers facing unemployment and changing jobs.
In the future, the continuous development of driverless trucks, the income structure of truck drivers may change, for example, the traditional mileage billing method will be replaced by new billing methods, which will also lead to more unstable income of truck drivers.
Of course, there are many good directions, and the technology of driverless trucks can better cope with the complex road environment, improve transportation efficiency, reduce the occurrence of similar traffic accidents such as excessive fatigue, and ensure transportation safety. For truck drivers who want to change jobs, experienced cardholders may be needed as supervisors of driverless trucks in the future to effectively avoid accidents in complex road conditions.
Of course, there is still a long way to go before driverless trucks are fully popularized, and R&D companies still need to face many challenges, including the maturity of driverless technology and whether they can ensure the safety and stability of driverless trucks during transportation. In terms of policy, the relevant regulations and regulations for driverless trucks have not been improved, and the road standards cannot be clearly supervised.
In any case, in the future, the country is bound to fully support the development of driverless trucks, and one day driverless trucks will become the main force of transportation to replace the current manual driving transportation. However, at present, cardholders do not have to worry, although driverless truck technology is constantly innovating, but in this involution war, some drivers have switched identities and become a car-accompanying safety officer, is this a good choice direction? What do you think about this?