(Original title: Google’s driverless trucks were also on the way, as long as this)
Zhang Zhiwei
Jalopnik, a foreign automotive blogger, recently learned from an anonymous source how the drone truck that Google’s brother company Waymo is testing looks like.
Waymo's driverless truck | Picture from Jalopnik 
Waymo's driverless truck | Picture from Jalopnik According to the appearance to speculate, this heavy truck is likely to be modified by the United States well-known cargo truck manufacturer Peterbilt's 579 model. A Laser Radar and two ultrasonic sensors are installed on the top of the cockpit, and ordinary radars are placed on the front of the body to suspend the license plate.
Unlike passenger cars, cargo trucks are much larger in size and potential, and they are more troublesome to refit. With the addition of automatic steering and braking, the driver still needs an experienced truck driver to ensure road safety.
Waymo's selection of Peterbilt's 579 model is not the first example. Start-up company Embark also used the same model for automatic driving tests in February this year. It is like the Lexus RX450h in the field of passenger cars. It is a star model for unmanned trucks.
However, Tesla’s Model S, the semi-autonomous semi-autonomous vehicle that runs the most on the road at this stage. Instead of using expensive laser radars, it uses road cameras and infrared sensors to learn about road conditions and environmental data, which is then judged by on-board computers.
This low-cost approach helps people experience automatic driving earlier.
From a business model, both Waymo and Tesla perfect their own unmanned systems by collecting real road test data. Those who are willing to pay for the system are not the same. The former may be car rental companies, freight truck operators, and express logistics companies, while the latter are private car owners.
Traditional car manufacturers are studying their own driverless technology, and Waymo can hardly find a breakthrough in them in the short term.
On the other hand, the number of truck drivers is seriously insufficient. According to estimates by the American Institute of Transportation, the gap between truck drivers in the United States is now around 100,000. In the next decade, when the baby boomers retired from work one after another, truck drivers would be even scarcer. Few people are willing to engage in such hard and dangerous occupations for a long time.
If driverless technology can completely replace the truck driver, 100% of the successful completion of the freight task will save a considerable amount of money for the company.
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