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<blockquote data-quote="TheOCbaby" data-source="post: 5083153" data-attributes="member: 8886"><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/rofl.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rofl:" title="Rofl :rofl:" data-shortname=":rofl:" /> What incredible naivety. How is a pick up customer supposed to tell a driverless tractor to open your barn doors, back into dock 34 after Knight Transportation pulls out and leave the trailer, then pick up the loaded trailer at dock 57? Do you really expect our customers to know how to unhook and hook up? Are they even going to be certified? And you don't put on chains at a destination. That is something that happens impromptu during an unanticipated road closure on an icy mountain or in a blizzard while en route. Then the chains come off. What phantom is going to appear out of nowhere to do that for the driverless rig? Do you expect state troopers to do it? Does the driverless rig know what the speed limit is when chains are on, and how is it going to know chains are on? How will it fuel itself up on the road? We haven't touched on the topic of railyards yet. They will definitely not suffer fools lightly. There's no way to communicate with a smart tractor to drop its load under the crane at track 129. Railyards are all seat of your pants dispatch. Good luck getting them on board with it. They'll tell us to pound sand. I personally don't care if it happens or not. I'm out of there in a few months anyway. I think you'll have a much harder time convincing state authorities and DOT that it will work and be safe. The simplest thing to do in the feeder operation is to make a local hub to hub pull in perfect weather and perfect conditions. It's obvious from your simplistic response that you are only considering this working through this most narrow parameter. That's the only way it possibly could work. But for the other 95% of a feeder operation, it is completely unfeasible. Oh, and yes, you would need a smart chassis. How else would the system know that the hub bearings require oil, the tires are flat, a wheel bolt is loose or a chassis airbrake is out? You clearly don't have a clue what you are talking about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheOCbaby, post: 5083153, member: 8886"] :rofl: What incredible naivety. How is a pick up customer supposed to tell a driverless tractor to open your barn doors, back into dock 34 after Knight Transportation pulls out and leave the trailer, then pick up the loaded trailer at dock 57? Do you really expect our customers to know how to unhook and hook up? Are they even going to be certified? And you don't put on chains at a destination. That is something that happens impromptu during an unanticipated road closure on an icy mountain or in a blizzard while en route. Then the chains come off. What phantom is going to appear out of nowhere to do that for the driverless rig? Do you expect state troopers to do it? Does the driverless rig know what the speed limit is when chains are on, and how is it going to know chains are on? How will it fuel itself up on the road? We haven't touched on the topic of railyards yet. They will definitely not suffer fools lightly. There's no way to communicate with a smart tractor to drop its load under the crane at track 129. Railyards are all seat of your pants dispatch. Good luck getting them on board with it. They'll tell us to pound sand. I personally don't care if it happens or not. I'm out of there in a few months anyway. I think you'll have a much harder time convincing state authorities and DOT that it will work and be safe. The simplest thing to do in the feeder operation is to make a local hub to hub pull in perfect weather and perfect conditions. It's obvious from your simplistic response that you are only considering this working through this most narrow parameter. That's the only way it possibly could work. But for the other 95% of a feeder operation, it is completely unfeasible. Oh, and yes, you would need a smart chassis. How else would the system know that the hub bearings require oil, the tires are flat, a wheel bolt is loose or a chassis airbrake is out? You clearly don't have a clue what you are talking about. [/QUOTE]
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