Drivers Your Days Are Numbered

Hate the way the world is going...

 

This post should resume under the heading backing on to difficult docks;

...i think this device sounds awesome and would like to see it work those real difficult spots that drivers come across & Carriers can not predict they'll occur.

(Prove It Too Me...curious, whoms paying for the wrecker to pull the truck out from a stuck position, (the oldest driver error) when the terrain is just right to get a truck stuck by almost flat terrain...u know drive axles spinning.)

Ques: if the computer can not prevent a wrecker, looking back @ drivers history can the preventable accident now be updated to not preventable.

Automated Trucks following each other like a Tour De Force...Algorithms aside, when a car parked on the shoulder of the roadway suddenly pulls out onto the roadway...the defining characteristic as to whom gets involved in an accident will be the Variable weight of the vehicle....or will it be characterised as a driver suicide. (im not going to jump on board to the this first wave of enthusiasm in getting ahold of that Cost Savings Device)

 

Stop drinking the coolaid. This kind of truck/ situation will happen just as quickly as we see automated DOT officers and an automated FMCSA dept, that only exists in a cloud somewhere.
In other words " In your dreams"
why do we worry about stuff like this?
Keep on trucking guys.

 

The problem with this be coming a reality is the human factor. Not the humans driving the tractors but the ones in their cars. Regular motorist is the true deciding factor of how soon or how late this is done. Because all it takes is one accident and what ever company that is involved will never be heard from again

 

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The problem with this be coming a reality is the human factor. Not the humans driving the tractors but the ones in their cars. Regular motorist is the true deciding factor of how soon or how late this is done. Because all it takes is one accident and what ever company that is involved will never be heard from again

 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...ing-ability-to-control-a-jeep-this-is-reality

...in other words, if you're hauling a high-dollar load somebody wants, they will just hack into your truck's computer and re-route you to wherever they want to deal with you. Or perhaps it's a hazmat load and they'd rather send you full speed into a target they want to hit. The possibilities are endless once you replace the driver with a computer and allow that computer to communicate with remote systems. Hell, even an EOBR that communicates with your company, which is tied into the truck's ECM may be enough for a hacker to get in through...and take over ANYTHING controlled by the ECM.

Ain't technology great?

 

I believe this is more industry's interest in capping/reducing driver's wages than eliminating them all together. There still needs to be someone to sue if the truck kills someone in a collision.

Also, what happens the first time a group of 15 year old hackers take control of an autonomous truck?

Auto pilot more or less handles 98% of the flying but they're not loading drones up with passengers just yet.

 

I don't have the trucking miles to comment on the effects on the industry, but a few things come to mind.

Yes, they've been testing them, but I read it was only in the state of Nevada, which I kind of assume was on highway stretches with limited traffic. (Is there new info?)

I'm also no robotics expert, but these would be programmed and use lasers as sensors. Not driven remotely by wifi or radio signal. Every scenario would have to be programmed in. (Or like someone said, if it can't figure out what to do, it would stop completely on the road?? Yeah, that's a great idea, so much better than a human driver.)

What about the program for finding the allowed driving lane with the best position with the required space in front and behind? How is that going to work, since traffic is fickle and -- I'm writing from California -- often psychotic? That thing would explode. I honestly can't wait until they try testing it anywhere there is any kind of traffic and see how many accidents (ok no I don't wish that) that the brainless programming and weird decision making of the computers will cause.

In other words. They'll pretty quick figure out this isn't going to work and start transporting trailers by drone. (Ok, maybe not. But i bet they're thinking about that too!)

 

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This Conversation is taking place a little early for something like this. Even when this is rolled out there will need to be more research and litigation before we ever see such systems used in abundance. Not to mention all the companies that either can't afford the new concept or even better do not support it.

The moment after conception is when all of our days became numbered and I'm only 26. You don't here me talking about funeral arrangement though.