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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: 1619829" data-attributes="member: 42691"><p>I love the fact that if the auto car can't process information (computer crash) it hands the controls back to the human.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You should ask yourself why they need a real driver in that cab at all. Safety? What do you mean? So in some circumstances the truck will hand the controls back to a real driver? A driver with trucking experience? You mean a driver who carries a CDL? And, if you say, the public demands that "entitled" driver be removed from the cab, why was he or she needed at all? It seems to me your argument falls apart when you say the public will view this backup driver as "entitled". Who views jobs that pay at McDonalds levels as entitlement jobs? Do you? I never eat fast foods, but if I did, I hardly think I would look at the people behind the counter as working at an entitlement job. And I definitely wouldn't view someone who was the safety valve for an 80,000 pound truck on public highways, as working an entitlement job.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I mentioned this yesterday. Many laws will need to be changed in order to implement this. And laws that put a large, large number of Americans of out of work will have painful ramifications to those lawmakers writing those new laws. Painful enough that it might be tough, or impossible to get those laws passed. </p><p></p><p>And one final thing to Brownslave and other package car drivers thinking this only affects feeder drivers: even if this driving technology could be figured out and implemented, the same technology would apply equally to package cars. A computer could just as easily drive a package car as it could a tractor. Meaning, it would turn PC drivers into full-time, computer driver helpers. It would drive, and you would run off all of the packages. I don't think it would work anymore than it would for feeder drivers, but the idea is identical.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dracula, post: 1619829, member: 42691"] I love the fact that if the auto car can't process information (computer crash) it hands the controls back to the human. You should ask yourself why they need a real driver in that cab at all. Safety? What do you mean? So in some circumstances the truck will hand the controls back to a real driver? A driver with trucking experience? You mean a driver who carries a CDL? And, if you say, the public demands that "entitled" driver be removed from the cab, why was he or she needed at all? It seems to me your argument falls apart when you say the public will view this backup driver as "entitled". Who views jobs that pay at McDonalds levels as entitlement jobs? Do you? I never eat fast foods, but if I did, I hardly think I would look at the people behind the counter as working at an entitlement job. And I definitely wouldn't view someone who was the safety valve for an 80,000 pound truck on public highways, as working an entitlement job. I mentioned this yesterday. Many laws will need to be changed in order to implement this. And laws that put a large, large number of Americans of out of work will have painful ramifications to those lawmakers writing those new laws. Painful enough that it might be tough, or impossible to get those laws passed. And one final thing to Brownslave and other package car drivers thinking this only affects feeder drivers: even if this driving technology could be figured out and implemented, the same technology would apply equally to package cars. A computer could just as easily drive a package car as it could a tractor. Meaning, it would turn PC drivers into full-time, computer driver helpers. It would drive, and you would run off all of the packages. I don't think it would work anymore than it would for feeder drivers, but the idea is identical. [/QUOTE]
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