Bumper Crop Of Accidents

Before long auto braking will be standard. You get too close and it slows you down.

 

Or a car cuts you off and it slams on the brakes for you. Anybody thinking all this autobraking, steering bull will work clearly have not taken into account the criminal element, or even simply the medically stupid. Have you ever had that car that just keeps slowing down and then speeding up in front of you, how does that work when your truck keeps slamming the brakes for you and not let you get close enough to scare the crap out of them?

 

The other option is to predict or anticipate it, and make sure such cars have a bit more room in which to perform their unsafe lane changes - then the computer for the most part, wouldn't be performing a lot of emergency corrections to compensate for your complacency. And... maintain the safe following distance which you supposedly would have agreed to keep (when acquiring your license and when taking your job), and let the cops decide what, if anything, they want to do about others who fail to drive in a safe and legal manner.

 

I figure every car passing me is going to cut it close to the bumper, why would you want another sensor that will just make 4 wheelers pay even less attention to the traffic around them?

 

Sounds to me like you are letting a bunch of random unqualified stunt-men control your situation for you and leaving the matter of whether or not you remain upright and on the road entirely in their hands.

Care to guess how the situation tends to work out for the truck when one of them makes a relatively minor mistake?

 

I keep a good two truck lengths between me and guy in front of me, or try to but you know that works in traffic I'm sure. I just won't put a computer in control of determing if I need to slam the brakes because some moron going 10 mile an hour faster than me cuts me off. Sounds to me like you can't figure out when you do and do not need to hit the brakes for the guy cutting you off so uou need a computer to make decisions for you, which is the general issue with drivers of any vehicle anymore it seems.

 

The auto brakeing slams on the brakes for bridges,or concrete barriers on curves sometimes.Scares the begeezus out of me .

 

Actually, the response is supposed to start well before the aggressive driver headed for the 4-7 truck-lengths of empty space in front of you gets to the half-car-length gap between you and whoever is ahead of you in the next lane over. If you can pre-empt that consistantly (leave a much larger opening, watch for aggressive drivers rushing in, and make more space while they are far away instead of attempting to box them in), then you won't have anywhere near as many near-misses to use as an excuse to complain against computer-controlled collision avoidance systems and whoever is or may be attempting to force it on you (DOT, carriers, shippers, insurers, safety advocacy groups, or whoever).