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https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/autonomous-trucks-economy-1.4403057
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Driverless trucks are coming to Canada and the impact will be profound:
''As early as late next year, autonomous U.S. trucks could be driving solo near the border, expert says''
Don Pittis · CBC News · Posted: Nov 20, 2017 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: November 20, 2017
At last week's rollout of Tesla's electric truck, it was the battery that got most of the attention. That and the new Tesla Roadster that CEO Elon Musk says will be the fastest commercially produced car on earth.
"It will be faster than that jet over there," Musk quipped, gesturing at a passing aircraft.
But according to some experts, while most of the world focused on the jet-fast car and the fact that both car and truck run exclusively on electricity, a far more consequential feature was buried deep in the vehicles' electronics.
It will change our lives
Among its many goals, Tesla is one of the companies on the verge of creating a vehicle that can drive itself, in traffic, on public roads, without a human inside.
Things are moving fast, and according to experts who study the potential fallout of driverless trucking on the economy, the imminent arrival of autonomous commercial vehicles on Canadian roads will entirely eclipse the impact of electric-powered trucks.
>It will change our lives
They say autonomous trucks will change our lives, and most Canadians just aren't prepared.
"The impacts of this technology will be profound," said Paul Godsmark, chief technology officer at the Canadian Automated Vehicle Centre of Excellence, a non-profit consultancy.
A California company called Peloton Technologies is already running trucks equipped with a semi-autonomous platooning system that synchronizes the speed and braking of two or more trucks travelling together. This allows the trailing trucks to safely tailgate and increase their fuel efficiency by decreasing wind resistance.
Humans not needed
Trucks that don't need a driver at all are on the road south of the border, too, but so far they have a human behind the wheel in case of equipment failure. But that could soon change, with trucks potentially driving solo on U.S. roads as early as the end of next year, Godsmark says.
The economic pressure to get a piece of what experts say will be a multitrillion-dollar industry — five times bigger than the smartphone business — has led to vicious competition to get the first fully autonomous trucks on the road.
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The financial incentives will be irresistible. Between running a vehicle without a human and running it more hours a day, going autonomous will double efficiency in the thin-margin trucking business.
Once the technology is proven to work, Godsmark says, it will work on any vehicle big or small.
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trudeau is a WEF tool
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CA same boat as UK johnson and the rest of fiveyes
https://www.weforum.org/people/boris-johnson
globalists have orchestrated their reason to ~~introduce~~ demand autonomous electric vehicles
clean energy
road safety
–supply-chain safety