Brainy Truckers and Driverless Vehicles (what do you think) ?

We will see them first in controlled environments like warehouse/distribution center trailer drop lots. Flesh and bone driver drops trailer in staging area aND robot truck grabs it and puts it in a dock or trailer parking. All trailers will have to be roll up doors unless they create a barn door opener robot.

There won't be driverless trucks in actual use on public roads in any of our lifetimes.

 

I think they will blame the driver for the truck behavior no matter what. If they go to unmanned vehicles it will be on secured routes whatever that is, flashing lights, painted lanes.

 

This looks bad for the robots, they may still need us
After trying to build self-driving tractors for more than 20 years, John Deere has learned a hard truth about autonomy

 

Anybody ever play Grand Theft Auto 5? Yeah they can't even get the AI to drive properly in a video game yet lol.

 

yeah i'd like to see any robot open a door in a high wind

 

Lag time with a computer processing choices is in very small slice of time, something on the order of around 15 or less in millisecond. It has to serve that information to other computers on the network within between roughly 25 to 70 ms time frame for humans to process and be reasonably accurate in that game space.

But pure computer processing, they can run code thousands of lines in no time at all. It's the tires, wheels brake pads and road surface etc that will be a liability. Sometimes computers are used to keep unstable aircraft stable because they can make adjustments to all control surfaces thousands of times faster than a human can. We don't really need a human in air combat anymore. It's a liability in terms of availible G forces in manuvering to a computer that can withstand more G than a human can live.

My problem lies with the software engineer. He is the flaw in the entire technology. He never touched a big truck in his life probably.

The computer in one of our cars is a little preverse when it comes to ABS in it. On the rain sure. BUZZZZ. But dry pavement when I need to stop like right now? nuh uh. Nope. It's too bad. 110 feet might just hit the man, if I can do it in 80 feet it would work out.