Unfortunately, the current implementation isn't very useful:Logistic network sensor: Car will interact with the logistic network when parked. Filtered trunk slots are refilled like a requester chest, and unfiltered slots are exported like an active provider chest.
Suppose there are 2 outposts A and B. You could filter some of the slots in the trunk inventory of your vehicle so that it requests, say, coal. The vehicle could then go to A where bots would fill load coal into these slots. It could then drive to B, where coal is needed for smelting. Once arrived it would sit there and nothing would happen because the coal slots are marked as requester slots. You'd have to toggle the coal slots so that they provide coal for the bots to pick up.
Doing this manually (the way it currently works) may be possible if you only control one or two vehicles -- even then it would be cumbersome. Somebody came up with the idea to mark parking spaces with specific tiles. For example, if a vehicle is parked on concrete, filtered slots could be treated as requesters and unfiltered as providers while filtered slots would be providers and unfiltered slots requesters on hazard concrete.
This idea is a step in the right direction, but it has a serious flaw: It only allows for two states! The problem is that Autodrive also provides fuel and ammo sensors. If they are installed, and the vehicle's fuel or ammo inventories are empty, and if suitable fuel or ammo is in the trunk inventory, the vehicle will refuel/reload from the trunk. Thus, it makes sense to have inventory slots that will always be ignored by bots. (You wouldn't want them to take all of your ammo out of the trunk if you're about to move through a biter-infested area. On the other hand, a vehicle without any weapons doesn't need ammo itself, but could be used to transport ammo from A to B.) I've briefly thought about ignoring the first row of the inventory -- but mods may reduce inventory size to just a few slots, and auto-sorting the inventory may also have strange effects.
So, does anybody have an idea how I could mark three states: "Provide", "Request", and "Ignore"?