UPS cant even provide clean bathrooms with soap and towels to dry your hands with, and your wondering about UPS providing self driven trucks?
HAHAHAH
TOS.
HAHAHAH
TOS.
Could self driving trucks make the union a lot less powerful?
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Myleftsideistan
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Electric vehicles that hookup to a power grid when backed to an unloading Bay. We already have robot vacuums that can do that.. Not far off ;-)
Harry Manback
Robot Extraordinaire
Here's the feeder model.
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GameCockFan
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It's coming, and sooner than you think. Google cars have already logged 700K accident free miles. It's legal in four states.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324144304578624221804774116
http://beta.fool.com/sangreypm1/2013/07/22/will-the-first-self-driving-car-be-a-truck/40122/
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324144304578624221804774116
http://beta.fool.com/sangreypm1/2013/07/22/will-the-first-self-driving-car-be-a-truck/40122/
Nike
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About a fourth of all UPS trucks still are manual transmission or lack power steering. Many of the vehicles in my hub are practically falling apart as it is. While the technology may be there (Google), the company is so far behind true technological innovations that I don't see this happening for many years.
Brownslave688
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Really? think as a corporation for a minute. Take a loss for a year or two and cut wages in half or continue to pay drivers way above the industry average.
I could be wrong but I see ups as a very early adopter of this tech.
margaritaville
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People are being kind of ignorant towards technology in this thread. In the 80s you would have to carry a CD players, computer, GPS, big ass camera, seperate video recorder, pager, and a bunch of bulk much 
tier other things to get what you get in a small little cellphone and this was in a very short period of time. We went from flying in general to flying to the moon in less than 100 years.
But with that said i guess we will just have to wait in. Cant predict the future.
tier other things to get what you get in a small little cellphone and this was in a very short period of time. We went from flying in general to flying to the moon in less than 100 years.But with that said i guess we will just have to wait in. Cant predict the future.
Nike
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People are being kind of ignorant towards technology in this thread. In the 80s you would have to carry a CD players, computer, GPS, big ass camera, seperate video recorder, pager, and a bunch of bulk much
But with that said i guess we will just have to wait in. Cant predict the future.
Ha, we're not talking about cellphones or televisions we're talking about vehicles, which you have to think have changed very little in the past 100 years
Ok yeah they have become more efficient, lighter, use different base materials etc.
But the end result is the same. You get in them, you turn them on, you drive on a road, you turn them off, you get out and do your thing.
Vehicles, cars, trucks, etc have evolved very little in the past century and I don't see that happening much in the next 25 years, which shouldn't matter much for anybody currently working in this company. After that all bets are off.
It is far more likely that an upstart delivery company would incorporate such technology and then UPS might buy them out and bring such technology into the fold, not for them to unilaterally decide one day to have driverless vehicles all throughout the company
rod
Retired 23 years
I don't think any driver has to worry about being replaced by a robot for the next couple of centuries. Who would UPS blame for every little scratch and broken mirror---certainly not themselves. If UPS don't even trust the gas pumps to turn off by themselves or have cruise control on their vehicles what makes anyone think they would go totally automated? I would file this story in the "packages soon to be delivered by drones" BS file. Same with having the trucks loaded by robots. Maybe if every package was the same size-- but it just isn't going to happen. They wouldn't be able to stuff those last minute cuts into an already over loaded truck. How are they going to program their robot to load the last 25 packages and the 2-wheeler up front in the cab because there isn't any where else to put them.
1BROWNWRENCH
Amatuer Malthusian
"They wouldn't be able to stuff those last minute cuts into an already over loaded truck."
That's where the hydraulic rams come in.
That's where the hydraulic rams come in.
1BROWNWRENCH
Amatuer Malthusian
...with the correct fuel. lol
oldngray
nowhere special
"They wouldn't be able to stuff those last minute cuts into an already over loaded truck."
That's where the hydraulic rams come in.
just need a shovel
1BROWNWRENCH
Amatuer Malthusian
Just pack them like garbage trucks."They wouldn't be able to stuff those last minute cuts into an already over loaded truck."
That's where the hydraulic rams come in.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Yeah cars haven't evolved at all. Lol they park themselves now stop themselves to prevent accidents and steer and stabilize themselves if need be. His keep your head in that sand though.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Wow you all are greatly underestimating the speed at which technology is advancing.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Wow you all are greatly underestimating the speed at which technology is advancing.
Foamer Pyle
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PT Car Washer
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The railroads do not have self driving trains. And all they do is go or stop. The public will not allow self driving trucks.
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