https://www.cbsnews.com/news/self-driving-tractor-trailers-us-roads-aurora/
https://archive.ph/SGbTF
Something something torment nexus.
If only there were a way to link up a bunch of trailers on wheels, but they could have their own road, next to the one for cars. Theoretically, it would only take a couple of people to operate such a vehicle, because the road would have rails. But alas, no such thing exists
But then a philosopher could operate a switch between two moral dilemmas, do you really want /that/ reality.
Nope sorry that's impossible.
Instead the roads will be filled with hallucinating death machines.
Something something torment nexus.
Or
Torment Nexus - Keep on Truckin' Edition
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Torment Nexus Mobile
2014: "By next year we will have fully autonomous driving"
2015: "By next year we will have fully autonomous driving"
2016: "By next year we will have fully autonomous driving"
2017: "By next year we will have fully autonomous driving"
...
2024: "Within 3 or 4 years we will have fully autonomous driving"
With no accountability, accidents become a social cost, which the government is ultimately responsible for. Inaction is negligence.
will Congress regulate them? nah, better focus on China and funding the war machine instead.
With how strange reality's been lately I could see this being the Skynet we actually get.
Think you can just nuke them while they recharge on commandeered solar? Good luck, they've dogpiled the silo
roads rendered occasionally inoperable by roving bands of unmanned semitrucks that got disconnected from the hivemind rocketing around?
There was a company that was already running automated semis between exits iirc. They did a deal with Budweiser at one point.
Google says it was Otto.
https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/25/technology/otto-budweiser-self-driving-truck/index.html
There was also a competitor that intended to use remote drivers for the complicated parts of the trips. I'm sure that'll go well.
There was also a competitor that intended to use remote drivers for the complicated parts of the trips. I'm sure that'll go well.
Genius, it's not like the complicated parts tend to be mountainous with poor connectivity or anything.
this is a terrible idea even in ideal conditions, anyone who's played a videogame can tell you that it's easy to crash driving with wireless latency.
Self driving trucks but they have to be escorted by someone in a car, but that's cheaper because they don't have to have a CDL, and you innovate by connecting multiple trailers onto the truck in a row so you basically have Uber drivers piloting Australian road trains.
the car is also self-driving, there's only one person in the car and they're expected to take over the self-driving car and the self-driving truck if needed because hey, what are the odds that both self-driving features will fail at the same time?
Remote drivers seem even worse than an AI would be. Imagine is the internet connection is spotty.
Fast & the Furious 1 type situation where they open the back of these trucks on a highway to loot the valuable Blu-ray players inside with no resistance from the AI.
There's a Stephen King short story about all the trucks "waking up" and going on killing sprees. It's called... wait for it...
spoiler
Trucks
lmao Hollywood really picking up his editors' slack renaming that Maximum Overdrive
One might have thought self driving trains would have been an easier project
Within three or four years,...
Next year it will be "three or four years" too.
If they were using Chinese tech, I’d honestly trust it a lot more. Their self driving is so far ahead of anything else I’ve seen.
Nah I wouldn't even trust Chinese tech to do this. You shouldn't be automating semi trucks, full stop.
He's been too distracted with all the good news Governor Noem has been publishing about her dogs.
The year is 2030, burgerlanders are rarely seen on the roads. Roving gangs of autonomous trucks rampage about any paved roadway and crush anything that the AI recognizes as organic. The people hide in fear when convoys come to town to deliver their treats, quickly gather them when they are dispensed, and scatter like cockroaches in the light. In their hovels, they cherish the fine quality wares from China, and quietly coo to themselves "thank you Jeff Bezos, thank you Ronald Reagan, thank you John Wayne... thank you for our... freedoms".
They should keep the self driving portions of any road vehicle physically separate from any remotely accessible portion. We don’t need to make giant r/c cars and trucks a normal thing all over the place. Imagine them moving as a swarm. That’s a lot of power with too little oversight.
