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Take the NEW Positive Train Control Mandate passed on the Railroads. Here is what the system does if it detects something in the Way and its only reaction. IT PUTS THE TRAIN INTO EMERGENCY. Meaning it dumps all the air out of the air brakes and the crew Prays it stays on the rails if it is a freight train. Meaning if say somehow someone causes a car to roll thru a switch someplace in front of a train hauling 120 Tank cars of Ethanol you pray like hell they do not derail and create one hell of a Fireball.

 

Well, the question is what it is. If you don't have anything to back up your original post that autos are more dangerous than manuals other than an opinion and third hand anecdotes then I will take it as that. An unsubstantiated opinion by a truck driver, which after years of being in this business, I will take with a large grain of salt.

What I observe are folks who are using an old solution to a new problem. New technology begets new problems and new problems require new solutions. If an electrically driven auto trans goes out then obviously you can't put it into another gear manually can you? That's an old solution. So what's the new solution? PULL OVER AND STOP! That's what you do if your new technology auto trans goes out. And don't tell about how you can't stop your truck because of this or because of that. If you put yourself and your truck in a position where you can't stop your truck safely in case of emergency then you are not a professional driver.

 

It's not passive. I am challenging him outright. Do I have anything that says he's wrong? Why, yes I do. The number of auto trans trucks on the road today have multiplied exponentially. It is an accepted standard by everyone including operators, manufacturers, regulators, and drivers. And finally, the master gate keepers of all things involving trucking safety, the insurance companies, doesn't seem to have a problem with it. The decision as to what type of trans to use is a personal one. Auto trans are here and it's here to stay. Like it or not.

 

What's really crazy about this whole argument is that trucks with Auto trans aren't new!

 

Ok, let me put it this way. Do you still use a type writer? Type writers don't need to boot up. They don't get viruses. You don't need buy a separate monitor and a printer to make them work. They don't suffer from the blue screen of death. By all accounts they should be superior to computers. So why are they gone?

An oppinion is not a lie nor is it nessesarily a fact. I have the right to disagree and I exercised it.

You still haven't given me any proof of why autos are more dangerous than manuals other than its your personal oppinion.

 

Again, more biased statements with nothing to back it up.

 

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There's one thing about about capitalism. The best "thing" always makes itself to the top. We shall see where this truck transmission Darwinism takes us. I have my money on automatics.