The Latest: Truck driver cited in crash with driverless bus

of course, i saw that happening.

i would imagine all the monies being funneled into the city for this program, they had to find a scape goat.

 

It seems ironic, but I can't help but think how dangerous some of these vehicles will be by "doing everything by the book". Just like the person maintaining the minimum speed limit of 40 mph on the interstate, they create a dangerous situation by following the law. Rush hour traffic is another example of a slow moving law abiding vehicle creating situations for impatient drivers to have to navigate around.

These vehicles may not be at fault in some accidents, but they will inadvertently be the cause in some also. It's like when you see a student driver in a vehicle petrified to do anything wrong. Mixing these autonomous vehicles in with human operated cars is very risky. I wonder how many of the accidents with other cars could have been avoided if a competent driver was at the wheel of the auto car.

 

What; and you thought they would ticket the bus?

 

"semi truck taps bumper and leaves no dents"
A rolling rig would have destroyed that bumper even at 1 mph. We all know it. There is no such thing as a "tap" when you're 40 ton

 

Nobody said it weighed 40 tons. The bus didn’t back out of harms way. Back to the drawing board.

 

The only way this technology can work flawlessly is if

1. Every vehicle on the roads in question are running in autonomous mode with synched software versions (no human operated vehicles operating on their own terms)
2. The vehicles are operating in a "smart" city where all intersections and roadways are "wireless signaled" and up to autonomous specs, and there is no construction anywhere
3. The weather is clear and full sunlight (if relying on solar charge upkeep to maintain systems)
4. There is guarantee of no power outage/problem, on the vehicle or to the streets

Until all this comes together, many of these vehicles [tests] will fail in short, mid, and long terms. But until they figure this out and admit they are 30-50 years ahead of their realistic time, there will be mayhem and human drivers will be made to feel guilty and to be "the problem". The major players have taken too much investment money and made too many promises to allow this technology to be proven to fail, on any level. Future failures will be passed off to a host of other scapegoats ... anything but the autonomous technology itself.

 

French company Navya ....)))))

 

Pie in the sky...

 

Im more interested in the illegal backing aspect. What is he backing into? A customer? Then he has every right to be backing.

Just probably didnt check that right front corner in time, probably never imagined something like that coming along while getting back under his trailer to get straight in that alley. (Notice the steers turned to get that tractor back straight.)

Some of you called it trucker gets cited. figures as much.