Swift double fatal I-8 San Diego

the problem is there's no way to turn some of that glorious technology off.

looks to me like each year the latest and greatest is simply paving the way for autonomy.

 

Add to this, the time spent alone, where a unhappy individual can concentrate on his discontent, and sooner or later, there is going to be a major problem.

Obama works for me!

Interesting you should post this right now. Just last evening, I was contemplating how stores such as Walmart et al can save more in labor expense. Sooner or later, they are going to find a way to automate shelf stocking. Don't know how, or when, but eventually we are going to see shelves that have been stocked by remote.
I certainly remember the days when goods no longer had to be individually priced. The bar code was added, and the scanner added to the check stand. Way back then, they were predicting that eventually there would be no need for checkers. Everyone would go through a self checkout.....
And looking back, I have to laugh at the naysayers to that...

As I see it, the problem is that there are already so many people on the road who should have never been allowed behind the wheel, due to their lack of perception, not to mention mental capacity. Right now, these are the idiots that try to blame the GPS for their own stupidity. As we move forward, these folks certainly will NOT become better drivers, they will depend even more on technology to "keep them safe."

 

I was given a job at a local grocery when I turned 21. I was to stand there and verify inventory count of all things, soup. Soup cans of this and that. When I finished with that I was supposed to travel 40 miles to the other store one way and count more soup. Then come back and give paper count to manager when done.

At the time I added up the gas burn (1.25 gallon at the time... imagine that...) versus the total wages at 3.35 gross hourly... and found that the gas burn would have been roughly 6.00 almost the entire two to three hours paid for the day's count.

I quit. Not even 10 minutes into that work.

Two days ago from today I read a article where they are fixing to transition RFID technology towards a form of blue tooth on a trailer or wireless from every case loaded and delivered to a particular store. In store would have been what I called living shelf technology that will call out to the cans being stocked for name and number. either the opened case of soup or each can will comply with that transmit request to the shelf and relayed to the master computer in the store. As soon the soup sells a certain percentage another delivery truck is supposed to be on the way.

No human.

Couple that with robots putting soup into the shelf? That might just happen.

Before anyone gets all excited, consider Switzerland. They just narrowly defeated a election ballot that would have given a basic income to all men, women, child and infants from cradle to grave, no work necessary.

Where was the money to come from?

Each Robot installed at a job, taxed like a citizen would be if a human was doing that job.

There are enough robots now around to support taxation so that humans won't have to struggle. Robots wont complain. It's just business.

Im not sure if I want that. I depend on the human stocker believe it or not when hunting a particular item a few times a year. That's a good thing.

 

A payroll tax for robots...hmm.

Maybe we CAN become a leisure society.

 

Jeff Bezos doesn't pay much in taxes and isn't about to start anytime soon. Amazon is leading the way in robots running warehouses. They also get subsidies for every box they ship.

The leisure society promise is just a short-term carrot to convince us to voluntarily stop working.

Anyway, I don't want to stop working. Retirement has never really appealed to me. I've seen how it drives guys nuts (like my father and father-in-law).

 

I wonder why collision management system didn't stop this truck ?

 

It did its job perfectly. It "managed" to collide.

 

I forget the circumstances of this particular crash but insofar as rear-end crash scenarios, forward CMS are rarely effective at speed differentials above about 40 mph, and that's assuming a target straight ahead and on level terrain and straight road, add any any of those inhibiting factors and they become still less effective. But they work great at lower speeds like in urban area traffic.

 

Anyone else catch the statistics from the report?
In the prior months to this crash Swift had 2300 accidents, 651 injuries and 55 fatalities.
Maybe they should invest in actually training their drivers.
And how can they be 'hauling hazmat' when the trailer was EMPTY?