Is Elon Musk the next king of trucking?

Makes me wonder how long until there's a fully autonomous, self-optimizing and fuel-efficient "Internet of Trucks" that eliminates the human factor altogether and just moves things from A to B. And why stop there? Autonomous and borderless public transport seems like only a small step from there. With ventures like Tesla, Starship and now Palleter, this might be a reality earlier than you'd expect.

That's an awesome idea. It would eliminate the need for distribution centers. Know the huge window-less monsters next to highways? The alternative could also be small vehicles for first and last mile (like starship, or a tad bigger) and then larger trucks on longer lanes between distro centers. Of course the distro centeres should all be robotized like amazons in that case.

Yep. And social unrest — if such changes take place too fast. Reminds me of luddites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite. Then again, revolutions take time :)

If we look at the surnames then in the past this was the case :) http://brilliantmaps.com/european-surnames/