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Freightliner Just Revealed The First Real Road-Legal Autonomous Big Rig
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<blockquote data-quote="clean hairy" data-source="post: 1620185" data-attributes="member: 55223"><p>In todays Dallas Morning News, dallasnews.com</p><p>in the business section this is discused.</p><p>In the article, it states the truck will not change lanes or pass another vehicle.</p><p>So, what does the truck do when the right lane is closing some distance ahead due to road work?</p><p>I would guess most of us have seen a car or big rig start to pull from the shoulder onto the road, and traffic has to scramble to avoid hitting the slow moving merging traffic?</p><p>Will the self driving truck be able to pull the same evasive manuver a human could?</p><p>A Police or Fire vehicle is taking care of an emergency on the shoulder of the road, so the truck will ignore the law and not move over?</p><p>Imagine how long a trip would take if it got behind a Grandpa on the Interstate doing 15 under the limit. It will not change lanes or pass the Grandpa. Currently, humans can judge and navigate for a safe transition to get around the slower traffic and continue at a faster safe speed than Grandpa.Just for kicks, lets say a UPS driver leaves Chi-Town for Omaha, Neb and it is 500 miles on I-80 and takes (just for example sake 8 hours with bathroom stop thrown in.</p><p>Will the truck decide the route is 40 miles less by taking 2 lane roads, yet the trip takes 2 hours longer, but it saved 40 miles?</p><p>Who decides the route the truck will take? The truck or the human?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clean hairy, post: 1620185, member: 55223"] In todays Dallas Morning News, dallasnews.com in the business section this is discused. In the article, it states the truck will not change lanes or pass another vehicle. So, what does the truck do when the right lane is closing some distance ahead due to road work? I would guess most of us have seen a car or big rig start to pull from the shoulder onto the road, and traffic has to scramble to avoid hitting the slow moving merging traffic? Will the self driving truck be able to pull the same evasive manuver a human could? A Police or Fire vehicle is taking care of an emergency on the shoulder of the road, so the truck will ignore the law and not move over? Imagine how long a trip would take if it got behind a Grandpa on the Interstate doing 15 under the limit. It will not change lanes or pass the Grandpa. Currently, humans can judge and navigate for a safe transition to get around the slower traffic and continue at a faster safe speed than Grandpa.Just for kicks, lets say a UPS driver leaves Chi-Town for Omaha, Neb and it is 500 miles on I-80 and takes (just for example sake 8 hours with bathroom stop thrown in. Will the truck decide the route is 40 miles less by taking 2 lane roads, yet the trip takes 2 hours longer, but it saved 40 miles? Who decides the route the truck will take? The truck or the human? [/QUOTE]
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