'Drafting' technology for semi-trucks debuts on Utah roads

Is saving money more important then saving lives? Is it a good idea to have 80,000 lb trucks tailgating
each other to save fuel? Have the people who came up with this idea ever heard of the SMITH SYSTEM
of driving? I wonder how many truck drivers will read this article and decide that tailgating is a great way
to save fuel? The last I heard following another vehicle to closely is a serious driving violation and will get
you a serious traffic citation including PSP points and a big fine. And no I don't trust technology that much.
When you start trusting a machine to make decisions for you your going to regret it sooner or later.

 

Any driver that reads that story and decides to tailgate because of it is too dense to have a CDL in the first place. Also, anybody that thinks these kinds of advancements aren't coming are only fooling themselves. I guess you don't realize that computer systems are already doing things far superior to allowing trucks to safely run 100' apart. Air travel is the safest way to travel and is dominated by computers. Are you afraid to fly? Our phones have 1,000 times more computing power than the lunar module that put the first man on the moon, and that computer was the size of a truck WITH a trailer. I would trust my phone over a lot of the idiots I see hurtling down the road these days.....

 

I guess you haven't noticed how many dense people have a CDL these days. No I am not afraid to fly, I have
flown in Helicopters in the Army and on commercial Airlines many times. If the Airlines had a safety record
comparable to the trucking industry I can guarantee you that not many people would be flying in Airliners. The
size and computing power of a computer is meaningless in regards to the safe operation of a tractor trailer.
A computer can't think, it can not make a judgement when something it's not programmed to deal with occurs.
Computers and phones can malfunction and be hacked or manipulated by third parties with malevolent intentions.
The news article was about trucks drafting each other to save fuel not maintaining a 100 ft following distance.

 

The airlines have the safety record they have in large part thanks to computers. What part of that do you not understand? As for the 100', that was one of the distances mentioned in the article. smh

 

If computers are the answer to all safety issues why do Airplanes crash? Did a computer tell them what
happened to that Malaysian Airliner that disappeared over the Indian Ocean last year? Wasn't it a computer
malfunction that caused that Air France jet to crash a few years ago into the South Atlantic Ocean off the
coast of Brazil? I understand quite a bit about driving trucks. I've been driving them for 20 years. I will be
long retired before they ever develop computers that can safely and reliably replace a human being behind
the wheel. computers frequently malfunction when least expected. That's why Airplanes have pilots and
Copilots. Would you fly in an Airplane controlled by a computer with no flight crew in case it malfunctioned?

 

There's all kinds of information available to ATCs, and it still takes a human to keep the planes from running into each other...

 

Actually, no.....the computers keep planes from crashing into each other with human interface. Also, nobody is talking about computers replacing drivers. Watching you guys panic is actually simultaneously funny and sad. Technology will advance no matter how much you kick and scream and regardless how you feel it is actually a good thing.

 

The H Bomb was an advancement over the A Bomb. Was that a good thing too?

 

sure like ignition switches, airbags we are a fix the problem as it happens or more like a sweep the problem under the rug until enough people are killed kinda of business society. Technology is great to bad people worried about money have to program it

 

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