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Uber's Self-Driving Truck Went on a 120-Mile Beer Run To Make History (businessinsider.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In the arms race to build self-driving vehicles, Uber-owned Otto just reached a landmark milestone by completing the first-ever commercial cargo run for a self-driving truck. On October 20, the self-driving truck left Fort Collins, Colorado at 1 a.m. and drove itself 120 miles on I-25 to Colorado Springs. The driver, who has to be there to help the truck get on and off the interstate exit ramps, moved to the backseat alongside a crowd of transportation officials to watch the historic ride. 2,000 cases of Budweiser beer filled the trailer. "We're just thrilled. We do think this is the future of transportation," James Sembrot, senior director of logistics strategy at Anheuser-Busch, told Business Insider.
I didn't RTFA, I guess this turn was able to outsmart Buford T. Justice.
mfwright@batnet.com
As anyone who has driven I-25 from Ft. Collins to Colorado Springs, it's all wide highway, and the average speed is around 4 MPH.
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"We're just thrilled. We do think this is the future of transportation," James Sembrot, senior director of logistics strategy at Anheuser-Busch, told Business Insider.
"I have a bonus target that kicks in when I cut our labor tab by $2 million, this will easily help me get there by eliminating a bunch of Teamster hacks and their pension contributions," Sembrot added.
"Wait, is your recorder still running? Can we cut that last part out, I want to keep the focus on how AB-InBev is embracing new technologies, that last part is kind of off the record."
My heart sank a little reading that headline. We've all known it's been in the works for a few years now. It was just a matter of time. Of course, as long as they still need somebody in the cab....
Now that we're ramping up the Misogynerd Narrative again (all those evil assigned males chasing the cisfemale hunnies away from programming careers!), I was thinking about maybe polishing off my CDL and giving long haul another shot. Why the hell would I want to be an evil assigned male programmer who hates women because of the gender she was assigned at birth when I could instead be just another lady driver? Granted, there's a creeper here and there, but I'd rather deal with creepers than feminists who think there's some grand conspiracy to make it so you need a dick before you can get a compiler to work.
Here's a question for our resident SJWs. I've met way more lady drivers than womyn-born-womyn programmers. In fact, I don't know any womyn-born-womyn programmers because they refuse to put in the work to create a lasting understanding of the subject matter. I've known some womyn-born-womyn who can fake it for a few months, but none care to actually grok it. (Now, transfemale programmers, I've got binders full of 'em! Well not really but it just goes to prove that the problem isn't the body part between women's ears and sure as hell not some "all men" conspiracy; the problem is the cisfemale entitlement complex.)
Once all the jobs that womyn-born-womyn have been doing like factory work, truck driving, phone answering, and yes HR and accounting, are automated and all that's left are tech jobs, how do you suppose womyn-born-womyn are going to support themselves? What kind of welfare system do you propose that a.) will prevent "misogynerd" faggots like me from getting a sex change to qualify for; b.) will allow womyn-born-womyn to continue to be able to live independently; and c.) will keep womyn-born-womyn able to continue refusing to learn programming?
We could just go to basic income, but then misogynerd tranny programmers like me would qualify! And think about all the other assigned males who'd qualify! And what the hell would happen to the cisfemale entitlement complex if that happened?!
Eventually, Otto started adding dummy trailers, eventually filling them with dummy beer to understand how the truck would react when it was fully loaded.
So they filled the dummy trailers with Budweiser?