Recent info about Google self-driving cars and accidents just came out. Here it is. While self-driving car skeptics like to talk about safety and liability, show me another fleet of human-driven cars that logs as many miles and has better safety stats. The fact is, a self-driving car or truck is much safer than one driven by a human because human error, fatigue, distracted driving and emotions are eliminated. A self driving car has no ego. It does not care if it is late for a meeting. It never takes its eyes off the road. It never has to hurry because it has to pee.
With trucks, they can run almost continuously because they will not be subject to hours-of-service rules. One truck can easily cover twice as many miles as a human-driven truck can simply because it is not required by a log book limitation to stop.
When you halve the amount of time a truck is under load, you essentially double the size of your fleet by making that truck available that much sooner. And you double the size of your fleet without spending one additional penny on an additional truck. While these high-tech trucks may be more expensive, their increased productivity will more than make up the difference.
With trucks, they can run almost continuously because they will not be subject to hours-of-service rules. One truck can easily cover twice as many miles as a human-driven truck can simply because it is not required by a log book limitation to stop.
When you halve the amount of time a truck is under load, you essentially double the size of your fleet by making that truck available that much sooner. And you double the size of your fleet without spending one additional penny on an additional truck. While these high-tech trucks may be more expensive, their increased productivity will more than make up the difference.
who's responsible the manufacture or the owner?? I feel that once this tech is perfected insurance companies will plumit and go out of business as well as a lot of police will loose there jobs to
