CFI Question Thread
Discussion in 'CFI' started by Gin86, Jan 3, 2018.
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My wife and I would regularly make runs out of Pa to WA. Or Cali to various states in the Midwest. Connecticut to Cali. Or on east coast runs. There were even times where for a whole week we would run stuff from Colorado to LA. Or setting up small runs from La to Phoenix to calexico. You never know what your weekly schedule would have in store. But we never dropped below 4000miles. And we regularly had 5500. They keep you moving that's for sure.
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How accurate is the accident prevention technology on the new trucks at cfi? I ask because I’ve been reading a lot of stories about trucks braking for no reason. My concern is icy roads and a sudden unwarranted lock up creating an accident.
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On wet and icy roads I turn off adaptive cruise control. Never had lock up in those situations. Driving slower in those conditions helps too.
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thoughts on the adaptive cruise, never had it but believe it would be awesome
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It's a tool, it has it's specific use, in other situations it needs to be off. Also gives false interruption now and then. That can be annoying, but it doesnt happen often.
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Adaptive cruise solves 1 problem, but generates other problems, like training the truck driver to override the safety system, or create a driving situation that invites MORE reckless driving from 4-wheelers. You either use the system and create a group of trucks going at the speed of the slowest truck, despite your dispatcher scheduling delivery assuming your truck can AVERAGE the truck's maximum speed, or you train the driver to tune out the beeping from cruise warning, keeping the "gas pedal" floored all day and taking a few miles to pass a slightly slower truck.
Engineers WILL solve the problem you ask them to solve, but when you change the situation, you change form one problem to one or more other problems.hollywood76 and BiggBossMann Thank this.
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