A self-driving truck delivered butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days

Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | December 10, 2019 | LEVI SUMAGAYSAY

[olesigh]

I remember going into department stores with my mother in the 50s. They all had foot-sizing machines. You stepped on the machine and put the front of your body against it. You could look down in the machine and see the dark outlines of your feet wearing shoes. Then your size would come up on the screen.

When I was in HS the machines disappeared. The x-rays were said to make people sterile.

[dfwgator]

East Bound and Down....

[mass55th]

I remember seeing those machines, but was never fitted with one. We had the wooden foot measure, and then they graduated to the metal ones. We didn’t have a car, and whenever one of us got sick, our family doctor still made house calls. I think he charged my mother two bucks to come to the house. I always ended up with earaches, and he’d have to give me a penicillin shot in my butt. I ended up having to have my tonsils out when I was five. I can still remember the smell of the ether or chloroform they used. They put a strainer like gadget over my nose and mouth, and the last thing I remember seeing is the big light overhead, and spots in front of my eyes. The only thing I wanted was for my mother to buy me a Princess Summerfallwinterspring marionette from The Howdy Doody Show. She got me one too. I was the baby of the family, and she spoiled me.

[olesigh]

I have a guy in my building named Buffalo Bob Smith

[mass55th]

LOL!! That’s funny.

[itsahoot]

If there has to be a driver on board

There has to be a driver on board now, during proving stage. Short sighted to think they will always be required.

[itsahoot]

That’s what they used to say about elevators.

That was the good old days, tripping out the door because the operator could never stop even with the floor.

[itsahoot]

New mousetraps aren’t always BETTER mousetraps.

New anything is never better until it is.

[Grimmy]

We could do it even faster if we set up a national network of super massive slingshots and rope net catchers.

[itsahoot]

I’d like to see it pull into a truck stop for fuel and autonomously navigate all the pumps, trucks, cars and clutter laying around without incident.

That is the easy part for them.

[Daffynition]

Better butter....

[itsahoot]

His rig slammed into another, an empty flat bed,

His rig didn't crash on its own, he drove it into the crash.

[Alberta's Child]

The USDOT is currently considering a new regulation requiring TWO engineers to be present in the cab of a locomotive. I find it hard to believe that this same regulatory body will allow ZERO drivers in an operating environment that is much more chaotic and subject to far more external influences than a railroad.

Just some food for thought here ...

[itsahoot]

The USDOT is currently considering a new regulation requiring TWO engineers to be present in the cab of a locomotive.

I don't think they are developing self driving trains, at least the big ones. They have had self driving transport on rails around Houston airport for 30 years. Ships are already being turned into self driving freighters.

It will happen no matter what we think because it can. As far as trains go I think they still require firemen on them and I haven't seen a steam engine powered train in a while.