How self driving trucks will reshape the way we shop online
The idea of self-driving vehicles has fascinated mankind for a long time. Whether it be a autonomous car, boat or plane, we’ve all imagined a far-fetched future where machines/artificial intelligence would be able to navigate themselves around traffic and bring us safely to the desired destination.
What seems farfetched for many, might actually be starting to take shape in nearer future than thought.
Along with many leading companies such as UBER, amazon, Mercedes Benz and Rolls Royce, Triwer firmly believes that autonomous vehicles will play a vital part in reshaping the person and goods transportation industry landscape.
While many believe the automation of vehicles will bring along negative affects for humans, such as rendering certain occupations unnecessary, we expect self-driving vehicles to have a flourishing impact for all involved — instead of eliminating jobs, it will compliment the human role, instead of taking over from where humans have left off, it will empower us to autonomize certain processes while allocating manpower to head operations where human intelligence, knowledge and skill is needed to reduce inefficiencies.
Triwer acknowledges the opportunities that self-driving vehicles present and aims to integrate autonomous cars and trucks in our parcel delivery network.
The continuous rise of e-commerce and the shift in delivery profile towards B2C and peer to peer goes hand in hand with an increase of individual express parcel deliveries. The ATA predicts that the demand for transportation and delivery of goods will experience an inclination of approximately 37% over the next decade.
To accommodate the increasing demand we believe that reformations of the traditional transportation approaches are unavoidable. Autonomous trucks and cars will find use for the process of first and last mile delivery as well as the long haul trucking.
It is most likely that autonomous trucks will be of the first self-driving vehicles that will find their way to practical use. The reason being that from a technological standpoint un-crowded, fluid environments such as highways are less complicated to calibrate for the complex system of sensors, cameras and software needed to enable autonomous driving.
At current state companies such as Daimler, Uber and Einride have already launched and initial tested fully autonomous trucks designed for highway driving.
In the upcoming 5 years, self-driving trucks would ideally replace traditional human truckers for the long haul transportation of parcels, enabling drivers to focus more on local delivery execution.
A transition to autonomous trucks would lead both to better working conditions for drivers reducing their need to be on long, continuous transits far away from home as well as increase human resource capacity to optimize inefficiencies in last and first mile delivery, where tedious human helmed operation is needed.
Furthermore the integration of long haul autonomous trucks would lead to an increased capacity usage itself, as a regular truck with driver is limited in capacity use according to physical circumstances of the driver. According to the American Transportation Research Institute trucks on average spend less than a third of their time in actual transit. Without the limitation a self driving truck could spend more than 90% of it’s time on the road, reaching nearly threefold of the original capacity usage. This would mean that a same sized fleet of trucks, self-driving could deliver 3 times as many goods, resulting in a reduction of overall cost and bound capital, faster transportation as well as a significant lowering of emission generation.
As a secondary affect human resources can be allocated to smaller vans and individual cars to optimize the traditionally, inefficient first and last mile delivery.
Creating an elaborate network of drivers with small capacity vehicles parcels will enable a faster, more capacity tender and flexible way to move goods and deliver parcels in tight, crowded urbanized areas and cities, reducing and gradually eliminating predominant inefficiencies.
Triwer is dedicated to invest in self-driving technology and establishing a fleet of individual drivers around the world to provide all parties — e-commerce business, driver and end consumer — with the most convenient, cost efficient and eco friendly way of sending and receiving your parcels.
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