Impact of automated driving on Trucking industry

Nope, sorry. I got my information by hands on experience. That's when you go from WannaBe to real life.

 

But wait!!! What could be more important than where I'm going to get my Duck Dynasty towels and 64 oz chocolate bars?

 

Having that was great, thank you. And if fact the internet did come from a field that I was in for 13 years. However, back then it wasn't on the civil side yet and what makes you so sure I haven't made a bundle in the stock market? What "hands on experience" has taught me there is a huge difference between a "wannabe know it all" and real people. Believe it or not there are people out there that might not have experience in one endeavor but have had experience to learn from others that have. In this industry that's all you have is experienced teaching the non experience. The best drivers are the one's that work well with others. Good luck to you and be sure to stay with us for a year or more. Sorry group for getting off track here and I'm done with this.

 

Can't really get a pointless argument off track. Progress will take its own course. Somebody might perfect this technology just to have some other mode of transportation render it obsolete. Or it might just get ignored, happens all the time

 

Hi there, I'm actually working with Air force ROTC so that's the tentative plan, anyhow.
I joined into ROTC to try to become a pilot. Didn't care what I was in, just so long as I could fly. Then when I reentered MEPs for the physical/mental qualifiers AND the psych eval I was kicked for having a childhood history of ADD/ADHD.
Now, bear in mind, I wasn't trying to get into front line flight service duty; but rather just the air guard- and their entry requirements are slightly south of the USAF operates on. So I'm in the process of getting wavers for my psych history.

Don't you know?
We're all just above ####### and Sib knows everything!
How dare you provide any evidence to the contrary, now he has to take time out of his busy day to make an under the belt remark and a singular sentence about how you're so wrong.

 

I KNOW, right? I mean, I know nothing about EMPs and their sources and how they'd wipe out anything electronic! And I guess I'm too stupI'd because I actually BELIEVE solar activity can be disruptive! GAH!

 

Will automated trucks stay in their lane ?

 

Automation is here. Just about every industry I can think of is affected by it. The automation is effective in a confined environment where the variables are controlled.

In order for robotic vehicles to be let loose on the world technology need too over come two major issues.

The first issue deals with artificial intelligence. The human brain is the worlds greatest computer. It has the ability to alkalize all the inputs and only deal with the important issues. How many times have you taken your foot off the throttle because something did not look right of you heard a wired sound? A computer had to analyze each input based on its programming and is limited by its programming. Today's computers do not learn and can not adapt on there own this work is performed by updates.

The second issue is how to get the information from the outside world into the computer. thus would require sensors combined with internal data such as the maps in our gps units. we all have dealt with the errors in the gps data base, last week i made a delivery and pickup at a place that garmin and google had in two different locations. the sensors available today have some very serious issues and do not work all of the time.

The last issue that has plagued automation is how to deal with breakdowns. The current way of dealing with them is to stop the system and wait for a technician to fix it. How many times have each one if limped a truck off the road or to the yard? I can just imagine this in the LA freeways a vehicle on each one stopped waiting for the technician.