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Posted on 09/22/2021 1:19:10 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Thank you.
It took me ten minutes to do.
Doing it blind side was the hardest.
Lol, yes you get auto-reflex trained to turn the wheel one way to back a normal trailer. With doubles it is opposite from what you are used to in order to aim that back trailer. You have to drive them everyday to get good at it. Then when you pull any other trailer you are goofed with which way to turn the wheel again.
Kind of like that deal with getting in off the road, getting in your PV, and reaching out for a tall shifter that isn’t there. :)
You're forgetting the con gear. The con gear is opposite, then the back trailer is opposite that.
Honestly, when you back up a semi 40-50 times a day, after a few years you're pretty good at it.
Yep, and should be... :)
“Data 1”...the automated truck that wants to be a real human!
Lol, that is pretty good.
“Because gps is always right. Uh huh, mine has shown to drive through the middle of a lake and the car was travelling at a hundred thousand mph.”
The info was accurate...you were just being alien abducted at the time and you don’t remember all the details. The ship flew you and your car over the middle of the lake traveling at 100,000 miles an hour. Yet your plasma helped save a dying race. The high galactic council is much indebted to you!
LOL...just kidding...or am I?
—”If anything happens sue the county, city, state et al, for allowing people on the highways be to their test guinea pigs.”
“Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops! Uh, depending on the breaks”
This is likely a bulk transport route, not a package delivery route. Still dont like the idea, I’ve been driving truck for 28 years and still have a good bit of work life in me, this in the long run will swell the unemployment lines by 3-4 million people ... and that’s not including the economic impact on the support industries built around trucking and the drivers.
“If ‘autonomous truck’ means...”
Don’t you just love the confusing buzz words that corporate management can dream up. 🙄
This has become the norm since around the late 70’s, when a Janitor was now called a ‘Independant Sanitation Engineer Specialist’. Not enough room on the name tag for all that fluff.
This explains why the Bifold Door part that I ordered on Saturday to be shipped to Me in NC has been bouncing around from the warehouse in Garland, TX to Mesquite,TX to Hutchins, TX All are basically in the DFW Sector !!! If I had known that it would take this long I would have driven the 20 miles to My local store. Since they offered Free Shipping I figured that I would save the gasoline cost, so much for that.
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
1:25 PM
HUTCHINS, TX
Departed FedEx location
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
6:02 AM
HUTCHINS, TX
Arrived at FedEx location
3:19 AM
MESQUITE, TX
Left FedEx origin facility
Monday, September 20, 2021
10:56 PM
MESQUITE, TX
Arrived at FedEx location
12:00 AM
MESQUITE, TX
Picked up
Saturday, September 18, 2021
3:13 PM
Shipment information sent to FedEx
I’ll guess the next stop will be the Memphis,TN Hub before making several more stops here in NC before it actually gets to Me.
We can blame H(ighly) R(idicules) for all that and the “Touchy Feely Crap” along with countless other things.
H(ighly) R(idicules) NEEDS TO GO BACK TO JUST DOING PAYROLL !!!
It is amazing how far the technology has come. As the costs continue to soar and the strain on available resources to move the volume the driverless vehicles will happen much sooner than we realize. Automated over long distances and needing drivers to perform tasks within 150 miles of major distribution centers or allowing for the intermediate miles to be performed on a daily (nightly) basis - this will allow more solo drivers to be utilized for expedited services. Removing the need for driver resources on the long haul. The cost will be immaterial as long as the gov’t will give them an ‘out’ regarding safety concerns. Perhaps more restrictions on the road for drivers to get near properly identified driverless tractor/trailers. If people want the deliveries it will need to happen. I have seen testing for automated unloading and loading of trailers for years - some of the systems can unload so fast that during operations parts of buildings need to shutdown to accommodate the amount of volume they can process (exceeds capacity of the system as humans work alongside automated process).
You should know the limitations. A mattress flies out of the back of a pickup truck doing 70 and 15 cars start swerving in all directions, causing a cascade of chaos. That scenario is difficult to program to have the truck "do the right thing" in those circumstances. Too many variables. 98% is not really good enough when the lives of other drivers is at stake.
Do you think they don’t know that? It’s taken more years to get to this point (than originally thought) because of exactly this reason, there’s many use-cases that are ‘hard’.
First, the example prompting my post was ‘driving into a tree because of bad GPS inputs’. That’s not how it works. They’re not that vulnerable.
Second, they won’t:
- Drink alcohol
- Get tired
- Get distracted by smartphones
- Daydream
- Act out road rage
- ETC.
How many fatalities do you think are caused by these ???
Third, they WILL:
- See objects 360 degrees around them at all times
- ...regardless of day/night
- Drive more efficiently
- Reduce long haul costs
- Drive close to 24/7, unlike any human
- Allow drivers to do local ‘last mile’ trips and return home to families
- End the problem of ‘never enough drivers’
People don’t realize we’re not talking about “if then else” types of software. They use neural networks for object classification, with a default “come to a safe stop” behavior even when they can’t completely understand a situation.
Far fewer incidents and deaths will be the result - but zero is a stupid standard to require. Some of the comments here by the ‘know it all’ crowd just display ignorance of the actual reality.
“ Wonder what their handle on the CB will be?”
HAL9000.
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