Self Driving Lorries
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Kent_Mackem
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Exactly. But not as often as humans. Just had a news alert 2 mins ago about deaths on the M1 involving lorries actually.
And btw you will never know how much money and regulation goes into banks mitigating IT failure risk. It's my job. Google rbs and see how much they got fined last time.
Kent_Mackem
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But if an assumption surely?? You probably don't know which posters also work in IT Compliance for global banks.
zinedine
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How is there a wages saving if their are still 3 Drivers?
Look at me I've got a Harley. Kawasaki fart box not good enough? Pathetic.
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Get them tested in rush hour and see how the software responds to idiots cutting inbetween the lorries as they need to be off at the next junction.
Big Sharp Teeth
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You can watch in one direction at a time and can be distracted and need to divert your attention at times.
Self driving cars have near continuous 360 degree 'vision' and don't get distracted like humans. The machine learning process they've been going through in the millions of miles of training they've been doing is giving them the anticipation they need. There learning will grow exponentially as more and more drives are undertaken. And they will learn from each other.
joemcdokes
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Plenty people have died to get to where we are today with technology and flight.
The same will probably happen till we get to a certain level regarding self driving vehicles, but I suppose you'd happily die for the safety of future generations.
There won't be any space between the lorries.
Pull them over and get them charged with tailgating
monkeytassle
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I can't seem to find it but there was a swarm drone test by the US military and a newspaper had the radar video sequence where they all interacted with each other etc. Was quite something.
An educated guess given what Joe had written about It disaster recovery.
What??Plenty people have died to get to where we are today with technology and flight.
The same will probably happen till we get to a certain level regarding self driving vehicles, but I suppose you'd happily die for the safety of future generations.
Hep
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I disagree, with some much telemetry available from self driving vehicles, software should be far more reliable than humans. Yes, it may fail from time to time, but bugs will be fixed whereas humans will continue to crash.
Yes they can, please read up on Tesla, their software is twice as safe compared to a human.
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Lorry drivers watching films, doing paperwork while driving
Lorry driver watching porn kills driver of broken down car
Lorry driver on two phones at once
Lorry driver typing on his phone doesn't see a tractor and ploughs into the back of it
Lorry driver watching Youtube on tablet balanced on his dash. Article also references the lorry driver who got 10 years for killing a woman and her three kids because he was too busy scrolling through music on his phone to watch the road and had 'he barely looked at the road for almost a kilometre'.
Just a 20 second cursory googling. The question isn't 'can all risk be avoided' with driverless lorries, it's 'can the risk be as low as with humans, if not lower'. Doesn't seem like a terribly high bar to me.
Lorry driver watching porn kills driver of broken down car
Lorry driver on two phones at once
Lorry driver typing on his phone doesn't see a tractor and ploughs into the back of it
Lorry driver watching Youtube on tablet balanced on his dash. Article also references the lorry driver who got 10 years for killing a woman and her three kids because he was too busy scrolling through music on his phone to watch the road and had 'he barely looked at the road for almost a kilometre'.
Just a 20 second cursory googling. The question isn't 'can all risk be avoided' with driverless lorries, it's 'can the risk be as low as with humans, if not lower'. Doesn't seem like a terribly high bar to me.
Any lorry driver caught doing that should lose their license for ten years
The company that they work for or are contracted to work for, should be fined hundreds of thousands of pounds
Fuck it, no mercy, just ban any lorry driver who is on the phone whilst driving a massive vehicle at 60mph
I'd also ban them from overtaking but that's a personal gripe
joemcdokes
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Any lorry driver caught doing that should lose their license for ten years
The company that they work for or are contracted to work for, should be fined hundreds of thousands of pounds
Fuck it, no mercy, just ban any lorry driver who is on the phone whilst driving a massive vehicle at 60mph
I'd also ban them from overtaking but that's a personal gripe
Most ridiculous thing I've read on here for sometime.
They're clearly not capable of training their drivers and should be held accountable.
They'll soon put in place measures to make sure their drivers aren't using phones at the wheel.
I don't give a fuck if you think it's ridiculous. I don't want to hear about any more families being torn apart by negligent lorry drivers who clearly aren't being trained properly.
Imagine thinking it's ridiculous to fine a company whose employees are caught breaking the law because the company hasn't trained them properly.
The only way to hit these companies is in the pocket. Your drivers using their phone? Here's a lovely fine. Don't let it happen again.
Have a think about it
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joemcdokes
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Sorry, I meant it from driver negligence.
You can train people to the highest possible standards but you can't account for stupidity.
You're absolutely right like but I just feel that haulage companies need to have some accountability for the deaths their drivers cause on a regular basis
Kent_Mackem
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