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According to a survey among experts in the logistics industry in Germany, only around 5 percent rated their company's ability to adapt to autonomous self-driving vehicles as very high. That's little. Another 15% rate it as “great adaptability”. 23% and 22% with “Medium Adaptability” and “Low Adaptability”, respectively.
Likewise, the relevance of autonomous self-driving trucks is not rated as particularly high by logistics experts from logistics practice, but the majority of 32% rate it as moderately relevant.
Expert survey on autonomous vehicles in the logistics industry
Expert survey on adapting to autonomous vehicles in the logistics industry
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This statistic shows the results of a survey among logistics industry experts in Germany who work in logistics practice or IT services. The question was about the company's ability to deal with autonomous self-driving land vehicles (e.g. driverless trucks). In 2018, around 5 percent of the experts surveyed rated their company's ability to adapt to autonomous self-driving land vehicles as very high.
How do you assess your company's ability to deal with autonomous self-driving land vehicles (e.g. driverless trucks)?
- 1 Very high adaptability – 5%
- 2 Great Adaptability – 15%
- 3 Mediocre Adaptability – 23%
- 4 Low Adaptability – 22%
- 5 Very low adaptability – 22%
- Don’t know – 5%
- No information – 10%
Expert survey on the relevance of autonomous vehicles in the logistics industry
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Expert survey on the relevance of autonomous vehicles in the logistics industry - Image: Xpert.DigitalThis statistic shows the results of a survey among experts in the logistics industry in Germany who are employed in logistics practice or IT services. The question was about the relevance of autonomous self-driving land vehicles (e.g. driverless trucks) for your own company. In 2018, around 13 percent of the experts surveyed rated the relevance of autonomous self-driving land vehicles as very important for their own company.
How do you assess the relevance of autonomous self-driving land vehicles (e.g. driverless trucks) for your company?
- 1 Very high relevance – 13%
- 2 Great relevance – 18%
- 3 Moderate relevance – 32%
- 4 Low relevance – 16%
- 5 Very low relevance – 17%
- Don’t know – 1%
- No information – 3%
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The need for innovations and even retrofits seen from other questions asked of the experts in the logistics industry in logistics practice and IT services. However, the individualization of customer expectations and the high complexity of external influences raise many questions about how.
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