Pity the fool following the truck...
“Pity the fool following the truck... “
Or the automated truck following it. Or the one behind it. Or the one behind it...
I think the following distances will be so necessarily large for safety purposes that manual drivers will take full advantage of them. These things are gonna be cut off left and right, braking and slowing, over and over, until they are doing 20 in the right lane, jacking up traffic even worse than it is now.
It was too close and too sudden. The truck should have slowed from further back and it should not have been so close.
I was in the digital map technology business for car navigation systems back in the 90s. There were working nav systems then, but nobody every heard of them. It took years just to get that working well enough that they are all over the place now. Safe self driving vehicles is way harder. Today's truckers are safe from being replaced by this tech I think, but maybe in 20 or 50 years it will be different.
“Pity the fool following the truck...”
Pity the passengers in the station wagon who all **** their pants when it looked like the truck was going to turn that car into a fine paste!