Article: Self driving trucks by end of 2020

Exactly have to take out the human element completely before it even has half a chance

 

Mother nature doesn't give a squat how fast your computer is, few weeks back, Wyoming had posted to expect winds to 65+ mph before 3 pm, at 9 am the wind was almost calm, then it started to blow, just south of Wheatland a freak gust put 3 in the ditch, it was only noon. Apparently, mother nature's watch is fast.

 

Gun manufacturers are protected, so to an extent are auto manufacturers at least for the moment, Conn. and a few others want to change that

 

My wife's car has run flat tires, and she's run them flat, $400 ea to replace, that's for a 235/18, I wonder how much an 11R22.5 run flat costs, after R2D2 has run it flat for 200 miles because his sensor failed. That's right, his run flat sensor, my pickup has a TPMS system, when the outside temp drops below freezing, 2 of 4 sensors give false readings, they've all been replaced 3 times. So, when R2's sensor gives false readings and he sits on the side for 4 hours while road service comes out and says, tire's fine, bad sensor, how much money does the company lose? What happens if that sensor fails on a regular basis, as they are prone to do. What happens when the manufacturing plant, making the sensor, ships out a bad batch of sensors, and hundreds of trucks have the same problem? Will R2 be programmed to get out and thump the tire? Or gauge the tire? Or will the human in the control center override R2 and force the truck to drive. So today, they override the sensor and tell the truck to drive, now tomorrow they tire really is flat, but because we know the sensor is bad, the human tells R2 to drive, and then the tire comes apart, and now R2 is really sitting on the side of the road, on in the ditch because the tire that failed caused R2 to have different mechanical failure.

The chain law just went up on I 70, sure, R2 has auto chains (although Colorado requires that even if you have auto chains, you must still have regular chains in-case your auto chains fail), but the 25,000 skiers leaving the mountains, well, half of them have crappy tires, and no patience, so, R2 is climbing the hill with his auto chains, wingnut in his FWD sedan spins out, blocks traffic, on an icy hill, R2 stops. Now what? Wingnut slowly starts getting traction, how long will R2 wait before it starts to move? Most truckers who regularly run the mountains know to leave enough following distance to allow for getting started on that icy hill, or to deal with Wingnut.

 

Actually, Conn. has allowed a lawsuit to go forward against Remington, for selling the AR to the mother of school shooter.

 

BTW, there are self driving trains, they too have accidents, there are remote controlled trains, they have accidents. Why, because there are still humans, until humans are eliminated from the picture, there will still be accidents.

 

LMMFAO I got a laugh out of the “tech” cleaning the sensors for the lane indicators

 

And that's in sunny, dry California. Heck I'm not holding my breath to see the same thing in rain. In snow isn't happening in my lifetime.

 

Earlier today, a 20 vehicle pile up in near blizzard conditions shutdown I 80 for hours, I wonder, how many of those trucks were "smart" trucks, collision avoidance, forward collision mitigation, etc., etc.. Technology is great, but mother nature, is a MOTHER, and doesn't care about your technology.