Goofy.
As long as there is a driver there, who is awake, I’m semi OK with it (no pun intended).
yeah, and when the safety driver isn’t aboard and some thing goes wrong? or the safety driver gets so lax since it’s auto driven and falls asleep, or distracted with phone games or such? people drivers are bad enough, I don’t think auto-driven will be any better.
Thank God! I’ve heard that there’s no butter in Pennsylvania ;-)
the word on the street is that California butter is a carcinogen.
Well I assume someone still had to sit behind the wheel and you need a stretch every now and again.
Question. Who do we give the finger to when these things cut us off in a few years?
I’d like to see it navigate the Montana and Idaho mountain passes in the winter.
But can it drive from Atlanta to Texarkana, pick up 400 cases of Coors beer, and transport it back to Atlanta in 28 hours or less?
ROTFLOL!
this truck included a driver the entire time! i would hardly call that a “self-driving” vehicle ...
what they did was exactly what piloted commercial aircraft do every day: running on autopilot most of the time, but manually piloted during crucial periods and when things go wrong or plans change due to weather and other conditions ...
in terms of moment-by-moment decision-making complexity, flying a commercial airliner from point A to point B is massively simpler than simply driving across a large city during morning or evening rush-hour commute, with changing traffic, other-driver behavior, weather,and light conditions, and yet no airline in their right mind is ready to turn all of their commercial flights into pilotless drones ...
The safety driver has to work under DOT log book regulations. He is behind the wheel and is limited to Federal regulation of 11 hours driving in a 14 hr day. After either of the above are met he must take a 10 hour break.
[The truck, which traveled on interstates 15 and 70 right before Thanksgiving, had to take scheduled breaks but drove mostly autonomously
Goofy. ]
Truck stop hookers hardest hit.
And who is going to fuel up these driverless trucks?
I don’t get this. Here in Arizona, we have these dopey fat sticks of butter that don’t fit in the butter keepers. I read the treason for that had to do with when the west tooled up butter production. Are they actually making normal sticks of butter and shipping them east, leaving us deprived?
They don’t make butter in PA?
Eventually, none of us will be allow to drive anywhere we choose. They are really pushing this hard. I guess eventually, the camps will be the destination for many.
Why truck butter to Pennsylvania?
The dutch Amish falling behind?
Why not ship it on a train?
Why why why?
Oh “electric”.
New mousetraps aren’t always BETTER mousetraps.
Land O Lakes is the only brand of butter we use. The box says the company is located in Arden Hills, Minnesota. Where the hell does California come in?
The truck was delayed at a truck stop after it was solicited by a fembot.
3 days, CA to PA is about 800 miles a day. The “safety driver,” with nothing to do but “look out” must have been exhausted with that number of miles per day. Having crossed the country from TN to CA @ about 500 mi. per day, I know. This whole business of “self driving” vehicles just plain scares me. Thanks, but no thanks. It’s a recipe for slaughter. And, what happens if a radical Mudslime gets ahold of one of those weapons of potential mass murder??