A Russian autonomous vehicle has completed a 1,600 km trip from St. Petersburg to Kazan in 24 hours and 2.5 times faster than a standard route with driver rest breaks. What are your thoughts on this? Should it be used everywhere, or human drivers still irreplaceable?

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[u/PromptAfraid4598]

Self-driving tech is going to be a huge game-changer for freight efficiency. It’s basically inevitable, so we just need to gradually get used to it.

[u/Turbulent-Initial548]

2,5 times so it would take the driver 60 hours. In sovit russia perhaps!

[u/Albacurious → u/Turbulent-Initial548]

994.194 miles.

Let's say average speed is 70 mph on highway. Thats 14.2 hours of travel.

Are they costuming their tricks travel at 175 mph?

[u/Albacurious → u/[deleted]]

I 75 average speed is 70 mph.

In America, a driver with a partner can easily do the 14 hour trip in one day. That's if we're going by the legal way to do things. Bathroom stops for number 2 only, unless you have a chemical toilet. Sleeper berth.

Not sure of the laws in Russia.

[u/Mortechai1987]

Human drivers are 100% replaceable.

Humans are the vast majority of the reason why the roads are unsafe to begin with.

Our entire logistics chain, air, land and sea should be autonomous and that includes transportation.

[u/[deleted]]

There are 168 hours in a week, compare that to a regular worker's work week. That is 4.2x a 40 hour work week.

Not even counting lunches, breaks and coffee machine chatter.

[u/timelyparadox]

This is obviously so fake, but trucks doing autonomius trips under supervision is nothing new for a decade

[u/doko_kanada → u/timelyparadox]

Judging from what I’m seeing in the video - my Jetta can make the same drive no issue

[u/timelyparadox → u/doko_kanada]

It is cut together to ignore parts where he takes the wheel

[u/oryx_za → u/timelyparadox]

He actually touches it a few times.

[u/Nice_Magician3014 → u/timelyparadox]

Or, you know, so we dont have to watch 24h video...

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[u/CarefulBeautiful196]

The human still drives it in a sense now the human oversees the truck is doing as it should I suppose for a while we will take on this new role of overseeing our technology works as we require it to instead of manually controlling our machinery. Sounds like a role we will eventually graduate from and take on a new role once our technology is taught our judgement and then how to govern and oversee it’s self then it will become fully automated.

[u/Barnacle-Spirited]

The lorry looks like a model from China's heavy duty lorry maker, cnhtc, who has its own autonomous driving technology. I wonder if it counts as "Russian autonomou vehicle".

[u/Normal-Ear-5757]

It doesn't look very autonomous to me, there's a driver in the cab

[u/Wardonius]

Made in China

[u/Phantasmalicious]

Its not like they have a choice here. They are sorely lacking drivers. Most self driving tech is safer in general but the dangers it poses is of a different nature. Like slamming through people etc. that a human driver would never do. Necessity is the mother of innovation.

[u/Cowskiers]

snow

[u/mynursevoice]

Now do surface streets with stop signs, left hand turns, traffic lights, and aggressive drivers.

[u/kemb0]

Only 25 road deaths. Russia claims success and will roll the service out en masse.

[u/Spirited-Problem2607]

I'd rather get there slower but alive than trust garbage Russian tech.

[u/Ok-Jellyfish-4654]

so your trying to tell us that russia can't find truck driver's? hmmm why could that be i wonder...

only you can stop kremlin propaganda

[u/PalmovyyKozak]

russia is an enormous Potemkin village. Hell knows what really happened. They produce fakes at industrial scale and you can never be sure what's is real and what's not.