Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours

dance_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You just reinvented trains, but with more public in the way.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Eh, if the public has all been replaced by AI, they won’t have money to go anywhere.

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  • dance_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ideally, it should be, but this would be more likely to happen in the US.

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• 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you could make self driving reliable you’d have a good point. Currently that tech isn’t good enough, and may never be.

  The problem is that ground travel is uncontrolled space, and there is very little room for error.

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  • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Highway driving is the easiest to get right though. There are plenty of cars out there already that can handle the highway autonomously just fine.

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  • Fallibilist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    and may never be.

    Yes, if we destroy ourselves some other way before we get there. Otherwise it’s absolutely going to be.

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    • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I do believe that’s what that “may” is there for. Short for maybe, it gives them an out if (and it’s a rather large if) they actually manage to make cars that drive themselves.

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  • dance_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s why I’m focusing on highway travel: it’s the more controlled environment. The fact that car companies are offering hands-free highway driving is evidence of that. Local roads are a much more complex problem, and that’s where a human driver is much more capable.

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• Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve often wondered why every new passenger vehicle sold in the US over the past decade or so has sensors that let you know if there’s something in your blind spot, but semis are not using this technology even though they have much larger blind spots. I would think you’d see trucks adopting this other safety equipment before they go full self-driving.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    First, trucks have longer breaking distances which a lot of sensors aren’t designed for. Second, many trucks carry trailers which are provided by others, so sensors are likely not going to be attached.

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    • Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Right, but the sensors can be designed for semis, and the trailers should have the sensors just like they have brake lights.

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      • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I just said that the sensors don’t have the range, which means they can’t be.

        There also isn’t a standard sensor layout.

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• tmyakal@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We don’t need self-driving trucks for this. This is already how intermodal shipping works: a driver picks up a container and takes it to a rail yard, it gets loaded onto a train, and then when it gets near enough to where it’s going, another driver takes it from the rail yard for final delivery.

  The reasons for not doing intermodal are the same as not being able to do self-driving trucks: oversize loads, document-controlled shipments (haz-mats, for example), and mixed deliveries along a route. Almost everything else could be put on a train, but it would take some infrastructure upgrades and likely unattainable levels of cooperation from shippers.

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