I'd have opted for a less precious cargo for the maiden voyage. Dave
Budweiser????
I'm crushed! Here all this time I thought you were a man of good taste!
Ed
P.S. I'm no Luddite, but autonomous driving vehicles have no place on the roads with people in other vehicles.
"Not in an open forum, where truth has less value than opinions, where all opinions are equally welcome regardless of their origins, rationale, inanity, or truth, where opinions are neither of equal value nor decisive." Ken Howell
What happens when a road crew does a minor repair and posts a flagman for 30 min? Do they have to upload some kind of road status thing to a satellite so the truck doesn't kill them all?
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
Might as well get used to it - the technology is here to stay and will only become more pervasive.
They are already testing "fleet caravan" implementations in Europe. This is where the front vehicle controls a tightly packed line of vehicles behind it, each only feet apart. It results in significant fuel savings, cuts down on traffic congestion and pollution, and yes, increases safety. Thay will become mainstream domestically in the future.
Vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure (V2V/V2I) will change transportation forever. Cars are talking to cars, and infrastructure is becoming intelligent, talking back to vehicles. Technologies like DSRC and ITS are beginning to revolutionize transportation.
Google already has 2 million miles of autonomous driving under its belt with only a handful of accidents. The vast majority of accidents are human caused, so before anyone points to one accident that happened in the news (Tesla for example) know that autonomous driving will generally make the roads far safer. The same human-miles-driven, when compared to Google, have far worse results.
As for truck drivers? In 20 years your jobs might be more like railroad engineers. Logistics. Coordination. Safety oversight. Communications. Or, possibly unemployed, if you can't figure out how this will impact you life, which it will. Some States are already planning on dedicating one or more interstate lanes solely to caravan or autonomous vehicles during off hours. If you are manually driving, you can't play.
Expect impacts to the insurance business. I expect the safety of autonomous vehicles to drive down rates for those folks, and for insurance companies to incent us NOT to drive manually (read: rising rates for manual drivers). Personally, they can rip the steering wheel out of my cold dead hands. Not because I think I can be safer than the technology in 5 or 10 years (no one will ever be safer than the eventual technology) but because I love the freedom of driving. But I digress....
This will be the single biggest disruption in the transportation industry since Henry Ford. Prepare for it, it's not going away. Embrace it, and pivot to where the money will be if you are in thay industry.
Or, get left in the dust because you refuse to accept the reality.
The DIPCHIT ADD, after a morning of drinking:
You despair, repeatedly, constantly! daily basis? A despair ninny. Sack up, despire ninny.
The Department of Public Safety said the Interstate 17 southbound reopened just before 10 p.m. on Sunday following a major crash involving two dozen vehicles.
The agency had hoped to get one lane on the southbound side back open around 5 p.m. but that didn't happen.
The collisions occurred just before 1:30 p.m. The southbound lanes were closed at Sunset Point.
About 24 vehicles were involved after a cattle hauler unable to stop plowed into them, Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers said.
A total of 17 people were taken to hospitals. Four people were flown to hospitals with moderate to serious injuries, DPS said.
The crash turned the freeway into a parking lot. The I-17 is usually busy on a Sunday to begin with due to people coming back to the Valley from the high country.
"You came right around the corner here and it just backed up," said one driver.
Some people got out of their cars and went for a walk. Others just sat on the guard rails waiting for traffic to start moving again.
"Taking naps and people watching because everyone is hiking so I think that's cool," said one driver.
Phoenix Fire Department was assisting with engines, a ladder truck, a battalion chief and ambulances, Phoenix Fire Capt. Rob McDade said.
Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers were investigating why the cattle hauler was unable to stop.
The cattle in the trailer were not hurt.
A short time earlier, at New River, both I-17 southbound lanes were closed for a deadly motorcycle accident. The backup was close to 8 miles at one point. Once the wreckage was cleared, the lanes reopened.
Exactly.. And it's gonna happen.. And when a few families get wiped out by these inane "driverless" trucks you'll see judgement awards that'll break those companies overnight.. And what insane insurance company is gonna COVER those things?
Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69 Pro-Constitution. LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
Just saw this on TV. 4 state patrol escorts so people behave better around the truck, and picked a nice day and not peak traffic hours (whenever that is).
Just saw this on TV. 4 state patrol escorts so people behave better around the truck, and picked a nice day and not peak traffic hours (whenever that is).
I'd love to see that unit try I-94 through Murderapolis about 7:00-7:30 am...
HAH!
Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69 Pro-Constitution. LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
