Article: Self driving trucks by end of 2020

I saw one once, sitting at Sapp bros. in Columbus, Nebraska, at least i assume thats what it was, no way I would want to have to drive that thing anywhere with all the cameras hanging off it right in the way.

 

Because it's tucker

 

Actually you can..in CT.
Sandy Hook Families Can Sue Gun Manufacturer, Rules Connecticut Supreme Court

 

It's starting to change yes, I see it opening a giant can of worms that nobody really wants opened but that's just me.

 

No it's not just you.
Individuals not objects

 

Well that just changed

Lawsuit By Sandy Hook Victims Against Gun Manufacturer Allowed To Move Forward


My point is, driverless vehicles will happen. California being the first most likely to allow it. How long it will take? That’s anyone’s guess.

 

This will never survive a challenge to the US Supreme Court. It's too broad and would open the door to suing anybody that makes anything. It should die when it hits the federal appeals court level.

 

Around about 1990, right around the time the auto workers union CBA was being negotiated, the suits at a certain manufacturing plant decided to purchase welding robots to reduce the number of production weldors. The plan went ahead and they were able to eliminate 6 welding stations down to two but it turns out the robot wasn't that great at welding around corners....it would get around the corner but it off tracked and sometimes it cut the corner much like a driver driving over the sidewalk with the truck. The suits blamed the programmer and the programmer blamed the software designer and the software designer blamed the hardware. Eventually the solution was to move the displaced weldors to a newly created repair welding station to fix the robots screw ups. Soon there was two robot stations and 4 repair stations and lots of OT but the plan was a great success because look at the robots weld!

I suspect truck drivers will be replaced with tow truck and ambulance drivers.

 

So we have these semi selfie cars right? Tesla and Uber. Tesla has killed two and Uber one am I right? In Tesla's case, a car plowed into the side of a truck? What if a truck plows into the side of a school bus? So far I don't think even Crete or Swift or Western Express has done that.