[Political Junkie Too]

Did you see the episode of The Big Bang Theory where Sheldon stays in bed while his robot self gets around in his place? Things are going fine until he has to open his office door.

Who is going to refill the gas tank on a driverless truck when the 3.5 million drivers are displaced? Will the truck be smart enough to plan a fuel stop or is it only programmed to follow GPS and not hit anything?

-PJ

[DannyTN]

I didn’t see that one.

My guess is that initially the truck will rely on fuel pump attendants. But programming the truck to stop within a certain range of the fuel pump. And then designing a fuel pump to automatically insert the pump and load, are far easier than designing a self driving truck.

So I wouldn’t expect it to be long before the need for a fuel pump attendant is eliminated.