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Freightliner Just Revealed The First Real Road-Legal Autonomous Big Rig
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<blockquote data-quote="Dracula" data-source="post: 1618485" data-attributes="member: 42691"><p>That's not how it works at the scales. If you are overweight, you're going nowhere. The whole purpose of checking for overweight rigs is because they damage the roads. If you drive by scales and see rigs parked, they're not sitting there for convenience. They're shut down. A driver-less truck would be no exception, unless they change the laws.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm an older guy. But I'm also trying to think this through. If you think this is only a few years down the road, I believe you're mistaken. Right now, this truck is nothing more than a prototype. There is an enormous difference between getting one of these to work in a demonstrative run and a real world run. A whole bag of laws will need to be written and re-written. It takes a whole hell of lot for a driver to get a CDL.</p><p></p><p>Do you really think they are just going to wave a hand and let an 80,000 pound truck be driven down a crowded highway without a driver? And I'll retire before I take a job "monitoring" one of these trucks in the front seat.</p><p></p><p>And as some have mentioned, the liability trucking companies will take on will be enormous. Because it's not a matter of if, but WHEN one of these rigs has a major accident. Yes, so do drivers. But drivers are held responsible for their actions. And while computers make tremendous strides in what they can do, the ones we have in our rigs now are decades away from even coming close to operating anything remotely. Right now, they are nothing more than a monitoring device.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Very selected aircraft. Drones that carry no humans. Talk to me when a pilot-less airplane flies 350 passengers from one city to another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dracula, post: 1618485, member: 42691"] That's not how it works at the scales. If you are overweight, you're going nowhere. The whole purpose of checking for overweight rigs is because they damage the roads. If you drive by scales and see rigs parked, they're not sitting there for convenience. They're shut down. A driver-less truck would be no exception, unless they change the laws. I'm an older guy. But I'm also trying to think this through. If you think this is only a few years down the road, I believe you're mistaken. Right now, this truck is nothing more than a prototype. There is an enormous difference between getting one of these to work in a demonstrative run and a real world run. A whole bag of laws will need to be written and re-written. It takes a whole hell of lot for a driver to get a CDL. Do you really think they are just going to wave a hand and let an 80,000 pound truck be driven down a crowded highway without a driver? And I'll retire before I take a job "monitoring" one of these trucks in the front seat. And as some have mentioned, the liability trucking companies will take on will be enormous. Because it's not a matter of if, but WHEN one of these rigs has a major accident. Yes, so do drivers. But drivers are held responsible for their actions. And while computers make tremendous strides in what they can do, the ones we have in our rigs now are decades away from even coming close to operating anything remotely. Right now, they are nothing more than a monitoring device. Very selected aircraft. Drones that carry no humans. Talk to me when a pilot-less airplane flies 350 passengers from one city to another. [/QUOTE]
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