and your worried about google's automated car.

30 feet ?? Didn't the DOT say "drafting" is unsafe..Somebody errr some computer needs a "following to close" ticket..

 

30 ft between 2 trucks at highway speeds? Um.....No.......I believe safe following distance is 1 second for every 10ft of truck, and then 1 additional second for any speed over 40mph....30 feet? I wont even do that in my car

 

Theg trying to put drivers out of business 4real huh

 

So how many frequencies are going to be needed with hundreds of trucks on the road. If one brakes do they all break?

 

The stopping distance, we've been taught to leave between trucks is because of the human reation time. How much distance is actually needed if both trucks brake at the same time.
Look at the number of people able to talk on cell phones in a given area and each call uses 2 different frequencys. With digital, it's more than enough.

And it'll never be totally driverless. All the same things were said years ago about cruise control and now not very many truck drivers can run without that.

I'm all for getting computers to drive the trucks.

Imagine the convoy we could get going.

 

because you use the wrong word

its called PLATOONING, that makes it safe

 

get ready to become a lumper............nah, i have seen machines unload trucks at JFK and actually stock them

looks like we can all learn how to change a tire