https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/business/self-driving-trucks.html
Unlike autonomous cars, which face questions about navigating chaotic urban streets, trucks spend a lot of time heading straight on desolate highways. And while the advent of the self-driving car will rest on the decisions of individual consumers, logistics companies are unemotional operators that will upgrade their fleets the moment it makes financial sense
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GPS's and the like will take a long time to have the minutiae of all the little side streets included, let alone things like bridge load limits. Can anyone honestly tell me they have not found an error on their GPS?
What they can easily do is have pre-approved routes for the type of trucking discussed in the link.
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And another technology being explored.
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...ks-completes-first-european-cross-border-trip
you talking like this as if there isnt a process where the exceptions or errors are handled or that people wont stomach a failure rate. you seem to think that because something can wrong now or ever, it will never happen. if that was the case then nothing would go to market. EVER! especially in IT
what happens when your car breaks down and you have no idea how to fix it? do you suddenly proclaim cars to be useless and not ready for market, then stop driving altogether. of course not. what about when the road fatality count is climbing, do you proclaim cars to be too unsafe to drive? of course not, the positives far out weight the negative
for me i'd have no problem jumping in an automated care with a failure rate where it might just stop until it gets human intervention from HQ, as long as its cheaper and the response time for it to arrive it acceptable. hell i couldnt give a shit if it say went the minimum speed limit or slight below, say 40km.
here's the use case: everyday i drive to work to the train station. i then catch the train into work. reverse it at the end of the day.
to do that i have to pay for a car. depending on the car that cost changes, but its a hefty chunk. i think have to licence it. another hefty chunk. i then have to pay for insurance in case i hit someone. i then have to fuel it up. pay for parking at the train station. sometimes my local train stations parking is full so i have to drive even further to the next one. i have to pay for maintenance. tires dont last forever. if its a new car, i'm probably going to get it regularly serviced. its ****in expensive for what is a 15 minute commute to the train station, twice a day
then we have the family car that we would use as the main car
there are hundreds of people just like me all at the same train station.
suppose i can book in a time everyday where the automated car will come pick me up. drive me 15 mins. drop me right off in front of the train station. then come pick me up. if i dont go to work that day, i cancel with a certain amount of notice.
i'm saving myself a massive amount of money and problems over the longer term. in theory the provider wouldnt be slugged with massive insurance either.