Driverless trucks making moves

Highway worker going to get killed by one of these

 

And again; highway worker puts out a signal, beacon, or device alerting all autonomous vehicles.
It is a matter of humans - making the "out of the ordinary"
Reads (NOT normally in the road,) humans, safe.
As they learn, and get better and better, these additional "out of the ordinary" inserts will be needed.
Like the already documented Tesla crash, no braking action was taken, because a truck/trailer combo was misidentified as a "Billboard."
It saw a Billboard.
That is a static object.
A crossing truck is moving - IMMEDIATE panic braking action should have ensued.
Was not in the programming.

Long way to go; but it's coming.

 

And then you'll get road pirates that remote control the trucks to a hidden facility and steal everything. Just look at the constant stream of security vulnerabilities. Software is just getting way too complex to find the bugs and then alphas get out into production and everything goes to hell.

 

The part that nobody gets is how much more cost effective is it then having a driver? All that technology costs a fortune and u still have to fuel the truck and maintenance not only on the truck but now also the added technology. And all the other things that come along with it isnt cheap either . not to mention when these things get into a crash and kill somebody , how much is that lawsuit gonna be worth and who is gonna be at fault? The driver? The truck company? The vehicle manufacturer? There is so much more to this industry and this business, driving is such a small part of it. Even a cr england driver fresh out of school can drive cross coutry without ####ing anything up. Let me know when it can throw a tarp or tie down some of the #### us open deck guys have to deal with. Or pull a oversize or a superload. Until then, it will still be cheaper to put a driver in the seat and work him like a slave.

 

0:19 to 0:30-You ask that thing for its logbook-I ain’t gonna do it!!lmao

 

What if this actually works, but is so efficient it starts running out of freight?

 

Or better yet arrive by the dozen or hundreds to a warehouse way way way in advance of appointment times that suddenly have no meaning to a robot truck. We will need a hell of alot of lumpers. Thats a young man's game while they have good spines.

If you examine what happens inside a Amazon center (Warehouse) filled with mountains of pallets around one or two workers who cannot leave their workstation to go pee pee... that would be enough to discourage robots to a degree.

One good winter storm blasting wyoming will close the state to robots stacking them up all over the place all the way to both St Georges or Salt Lake City-Odgen. It will take weeks to clear them all out.

Some have suggested I am too old and broken down to think about getting back into this industry, however until the robots do show up for good I think I still have a chance anyway. It really does not matter to me anymore. Not like it did long ago. Then again I could find something else to do, but at my age Im too close to being retired anyway. There is no value. Not economic value anyway on my life. So bring on the robots. I'll be in the cheap seats with a pot of popcorn reading the news of the latest smash killing people in imaginative deaths by robots.

 

I just read this, Wow; just enjoy every day, will ya?
The Christmas season is upon us, so buck up - and get jolly!!!

Robots still don't differentiate a billboard from a truck.
Yet.
Merry Christmas X1Heavy, and all of you deplorables out there!! Ho, Ho!!

 

When they have a robot come out and change a flat I will start to worry, or just start collecting social security.

 

The guy at 2:00, if these thing rise up against us? I'm blaming it all on him and his #### hockey stick!

Also, CA to PA, so just like 90% of the drivers out there, you still need nutjobs like me to run into NYC.