He ' s a multi millionaire . Made solely from comedy . That ' s not a huge club he ' s in . <| sep |> This is a new level of shit posting . <| sep |> Well no one else has up until this point <| sep |> If you are titrating , move to the new one straight away . You might want to move back . <| sep |> Now I am , too . Happy Thanksgiving ! <| sep |> not really that stumpy . def not long but wouldn ' t call them stumpy <| sep |> Absolutely , the ROI on major purchases is well calculated . The ROI on Tractors ? That ' s WAY out in the future . I just sat in a meeting where we were looking at repair vs purchase of a couple of our fleet vehicles . I work for a company that has a massive in house maintenance facility as well . Full time mechanics to repair and maintain the fleet . The most addition of technology that HAS had a sweeping change is the drive cams , but those are easy to install and do not effect driving at all . Just make it better for drivers and underwriters , our drivers LOVE having the cams . So do we . It ' s mostly an insurance thing . But again , that was just a box that got wired up and didn ' t really change anything mechanical with the truck . I truly can not imagine how much an automated self driving big rig tractor is , that surely would be $ 100 K over the current price right ? At least ? What ' s maintenance on that ? Do we need to employee programmers and buy more expensive special diagnostic equipment ? Now we have all of the mechanical maintenance issues AND technology maintenance issues . IS an IT guy cheaper then a driver ? What about rescue crews to go get a stranded truck because it had a blue screen of death in the middle of a route ? The shit just gets so deep so quick , people don ' t understand the value of a human on the scene . So let ' s say an automated truck dies on the freeway , for whatever reason , now we have to have the regular drivers drive a tractor out there , uncouple the trailer , couple it back up and drive its route . Additionally now we have to tow out a tractor for some unknown technical computer error ? This is what it boils down too for me The day you show me a computer that doesn ' t crash or have errors , is the day we START talking about automated driving on a commercial scale . Until then , every error has a massive price tag , and that price tag just is not economically viable .