Posted on 08/16/2020 6:17:42 PM PDT by tbw2
While this column isn't about the threat posed by Transformers, it is about a robot apocalypse that's going to ravage the Midwest. I know, I know, the last thing you want to hear about right now is another imminent doomsday -- aren't global warming and COVID-19 and murder hornets and measles and the ever-present specter of thermonuclear war and the possibility of hyper-intelligent toilet lampreys enough?
Well, it's likely you haven't heard too much about this particular apocalypse because it's not a sexy blood-and-guts kind. Instead of armies of Terminators hunting down handfuls of survivors for their sweet sweet spinal fluid, it'll look like this:
AHHHHHHHH!
Driverless semis.
(Excerpt) Read more at cracked.com ...
The cast is a time capsule of a whole slew of actors yet to hit the big time. Sean Connery, Patrick MacGoohan (sp), Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom a very young Jill Ireland, and even David MacCallum who would marry her then lose her to Charles Bronson after the movie The Great Escape.
I’d take all of them over the so called talent of today.
I remeber seeing a few episodes of BJ and the Bear asa kid. I happended to read up on the series on Wiki pedia a couple of days ago.
And I enjoyed the smokey and the bandit movie also.
BJ and the bear was good light hearted fare.
Sheriff Lobo was better.
They were all so damned good.
While they won’t be perfect, they will likely be better than human drivers.
And with each mistake the programming and hardware will get reviewed and improved until they are far better than human drivers.
The biggest issue will likely be human drivers making a mistake and trying to blame it on the self driven truck.
They were, no question.
I’ve enjoyed rediscovering The Saint. All of those people were better than today’s crowd.
Paging Willie Green
autonomous trucks won’t be able to handle things once off the interstate.
Or hijackers. I can see defeating a truck’s electronics and activating the air brake system. Truck comes to a halt.
can’t be much worse than two generations of poorly parented kids raised by grand theft auto let loose on the nations roads. it just can’t be.
i don’t get any windows at all popping up.
don’t you use an ad blocker like ublock origin?
privacy badger?
Take one min to install, then no more popups
Robots don’t unionize or go on strike. Robots don’t demand health insurance. Robots increase profits. I’m all for it.
I work with companies doing this...the “off the interstate” isn’t the problem domain. You can have truck hubs where a real driver picks up a load to handle the last few miles. The 2000 freeway miles it took to get it there can be done, and soon. Most likely, we’ll first see truck “platooning” where there is a lead driver, followed by other trucks without one.
It isn’t far away.
Will the these trucks be able to drive onto the portable bathroom scales for a axle weight check?
Any safety violation has always gone to the driver.
Hm. . I Need to do that
Thx
Duel.
Yes! Besides them being easy targets and sabotaged, that would be idea, I guess.
How is the truck going to deal with weather conditions like high crosswinds and ice?
Sheriff LOBO and Deputy Perkins were memorable characters.
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