Starsky (no Hutch) - Driverless Trucking

"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction) 08/28/2020 at 11:00 • Filed to: None

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Very impressive stuff. Testing in TX, NW, AZ.

But another large middle-class blue collar workforce in danger...

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For Sweden > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/28/2020 at 11:08

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This is a lot of work to just not use freight trains

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > For Sweden 08/28/2020 at 11:31

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...a nd self driving trains already exist.

CivicWagonEngineer > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/28/2020 at 11:56

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I work in the heavy duty trucking industry, and I think this tech is many years out. We are rolling out ADAS systems that are already standard on most passenger vehicles. Typically HD trucks lag about 5 years behind passenger cars, technology wise, so I wouldn’t count on this happening any time soon. We are prototyping self driving though so it i s, at least, inevitable.

user314 > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/28/2020 at 12:10

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Yeah, this will last until HAL plows one truck into another, or a school bus. 

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/28/2020 at 12:17

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But how will they program them to stop, wait, and then pull out in front of traffic anyway?

Brickman > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/28/2020 at 12:36

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For long stretches of highway and freight yards I can see where self driving trucks can be useful, but not so much in cities and industrial areas.

I am still planning on becoming a trucker soon, so maybe my boss will be a computer :P  Sit back and feel my ass grow. 

Just Jeepin' > Brickman 08/28/2020 at 12:44

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It seems to me inevitable that there will be truckers waiting for the long-haul self-driving trucks to arrive via the highway , to steer them to their final destination.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > CivicWagonEngineer 08/28/2020 at 13:42

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Will be interesting to watch. I think the real key advancement  is inter-vehicle communication, which will be very challenging with all these disparate systems. 

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 08/28/2020 at 13:43

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This is a very good question. 

CivicWagonEngineer > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/28/2020 at 14:15

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Truck platooning is another technology being worked out with very real MPG benefits, it will use inter-vehicle communication to coordinate truck positioning within the convoy. It should be a good proof of concept for more general inter-vehicle communication.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > CivicWagonEngineer 08/28/2020 at 16:03

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Very cool.