Self-driving trucks are expected in 2025.

Self-driving trucks are expected to achieve a huge breakthrough in 2025.

We talk about self-driving cars every day. Have you ever heard of self-driving trucks?

There are 0/40,000 freight trucks and 30 million truck drivers in China. These trucks and drivers account for three quarters of the freight volume of China's transportation industry.

Putting these trucks into the internet, replacing drivers with algorithms, and realizing unmanned driving have opened up a new market worth trillions. This market is called Robotruck.

Self-driving truck is an industry that has received a lot of financing and suffered a lot of controversy, and it belongs to a way of autonomous driving technology landing. In contrast, it is a self-driving taxi (Robotaxi), but Robotaxi replaces the taxi driver and Robotruck replaces the truck driver. One is carrying people, and the other is pulling goods. Essentially, let the vehicle drive automatically.

If further elaborated, self-driving trucks are divided into trunk logistics and closed scenes (including ports, mines, airports, etc. ), among which trunk logistics has a better prospect and a higher market share.

The application scenario of automatic driving of trunk logistics freight trucks is relatively simple. There are no pedestrians, non-motor vehicles and traffic lights on the expressway, and the road conditions are simple, which is considered to be faster than the bus landing.

In the blueprint planning of the self-driving truck industry, the market scale given by these large enterprises exceeds 6 trillion yuan. In the past, these goods were mainly transported by truck drivers, but in the future, new trucks with automatic driving ability can completely or partially replace drivers.

This seems to be only a small change, but if it is really realized, the economic benefits behind it will be enormous.

Some companies believe that the economy of self-driving trucks is obviously better than that of traditional fuel heavy trucks, mainly in three aspects: one is to increase the running time of trucks, the other is to reduce the cost of drivers, and the third is to improve fuel economy. According to its calculation, self-driving trucks can eventually reduce the cost by 45%.

In such a huge commercial background, many companies have entered this industry, but it is very difficult for the current self-driving truck technology to land. Many companies predict that 2025 will be the year when self-driving trucks will explode.