A view of future trucks, from a dozen years ago


Autonomous Trucks

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(Photo: istock)“There will be routes between 2020 to 2025… that will be designed to be fully autonomous. “When I consider this autonomous, global economy a critical part of it is going to be driverless trucks,” said Canton. 3D printing and trucking“By 2050… trucks will be fully autonomous, no humans. Trucks will be manufactured by 3D printing; we’ll be making trucks on demand… distributed wherever you are in the market place.”And how about this vision? “We’ll still affectionately call trucks trucks, but they’ll be intelligent entities with brains to be able to make decisions,” Canton said.