Ready to let your truck do the driving?

[OntarioVanMan]

Just because your log book says you are legal to drive....should you?

Maybe a heart/breathing monitor hook up...that will analysis you, sense your body is fatigued and not let you start the truck?

 

[scottm4211]

Though useful for some, I'll stick to my little pea brain and common sense to tell me when to take a break. It hasn't failed me nor do I expect it to.
And of course coffee.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

Re: Electronic Rumble Strips LDWS

Though useful for some, I'll stick to my little pea brain and common sense to tell me when to take a break. It hasn't failed me nor do I expect it to.
And of course coffee.

That is my point...gadgets...proximity breaking sensors...back up sensors, camera's, speed limiters, EOBR.....sweet lord...

Perfect world....get rid of the driver...or Borg the driver

 

[scottm4211]

Re: Electronic Rumble Strips LDWS

That is my point...gadgets...proximity breaking sensors...back up sensors, camera's, speed limiters, EOBR.....sweet lord...

Perfect world....get rid of the driver...or Borg the driver

I don't like the false sense of security it might give some drivers. (typed in a non robotic voice)

 

[greg334]

Wow, am I still reading that 1968 popular mechanics issue?

 

[OntarioVanMan]

Wow, am I still reading that 1968 popular mechanics issue?

Wonder how these day drivers would have coped without power steering and automatic transmissions? Turning and shifting at the same time was a real treat...

 

[jujubeans]

Wonder how these day drivers would have coped without power steering and automatic transmissions? Turning and shifting at the same time was a real treat...

Some days so are walking and chewing bubblegum...

 

[Dakota]

Has anyone been to an automated warehouse? I have seen forklifts and pallet movers that are computer controlled, no operator...it's kinda creepy LOL

 

[ATeam]

Link to article in Expedite NOW: Imagine a Future Without Trucks

 

[Dakota]

‪2001 A Space Odyssey Opening‬‏ - YouTube

This should be playing while reading that article

 

[greg334]

Wonder how these day drivers would have coped without power steering and automatic transmissions? Turning and shifting at the same time was a real treat...

I think one of the problems now we have is the truck drives like a car. Unlike what many want to make it out like, the truck has evolved where anyone can drive it.

I'm getting ripped in another thread about fatigue but I can tell you from driving different vehicles, what is claimed to be the worst vehicle to drive is the best riding one which is a new class 8 truck with good seats. Automatic shifting, power steering, 20 way adjustable seats, radar collision system, blind spot cameras, climate control and the list goes on - why would anyone think a van is better than that?

 

[jimlookup]

Has anyone been to an automated warehouse? I have seen forklifts and pallet movers that are computer controlled, no operator...it's kinda creepy LOL

There will never be driverless trucks. The government and the beaurocrats won't allow it. Who would the FMCSA have to crap on?

 

[greg334]

There will never be driverless trucks.

But we have that right now with the revolving door and the easy licensing system.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

I think one of the problems now we have is the truck drives like a car. Unlike what many want to make it out like, the truck has evolved where anyone can drive it.

I'm getting ripped in another thread about fatigue but I can tell you from driving different vehicles, what is claimed to be the worst vehicle to drive is the best riding one which is a new class 8 truck with good seats. Automatic shifting, power steering, 20 way adjustable seats, radar collision system, blind spot cameras, climate control and the list goes on - why would anyone think a van is better than that?

Where you going with this Greg? You baiting?

 

[scottm4211]

Throwin out the hook

Where you going with this Greg? You baiting?

Posted with my Droid EO Forum App

 

[skyraider]

But we have that right now with the revolving door and the easy licensing system.

Don't all 18 wheeler pilots have 4 or 5 cdls, omy?

 

[ChanceMaster]

I remember a pilot telling me that the technology exists for airlines to use passenger jets without a human pilot, however the airlines wont do it because customers safety perceptions will prevent them from flying on a plane without a pilot.

 

[ATeam]

Drone plane technology has come a long way in recent years as demonstrated by their use in Afghanistan. Law enforcement agencies are putting drones to use in the U.S. now.

FedEx Chairman Fred Smith has been talking about drone cargo planes for some time. I believe we will see those in a few years. The technology exists now. The regulatory path will be more easily cleared with cargo plans than with passenger planes.

It does not stretch the imagination too much to think about mini drone cargo planes; you know, the exclusive use kind for small but important expedited shipments. I wonder if Fred Smith or someone else has thought about a nationwide fleet of expediter drones supported by local air freight trucks?