Executive Order on Commercial Motor Vehicle Operations

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Originally Posted by .455_Hunter

What could possibly go wrong?

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Evil robots stealing jobs from the precious and innocent undocumented- that's what's wrong!

Sad but true, people will die, but progress will still happen. Autonomous driving, especially for commercial/freight, is coming. There is simply too much cost involved with employing drivers for it not to.

Autonomous trucks are most likely going to be way safer than human operators. No distractions, drugs, health conditions, or just plain shitty decisions being made.

Just get an AI president and remove the idiot factor completely. I know I am asking too much.

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Originally Posted by def90

Autonomous trucks are most likely going to be way safer than human operators. No distractions, drugs, health conditions, or just plain shitty decisions being made.

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Yeah, no. These are computers, and they are stupid.

-John

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Originally Posted by arbol

Yeah, no. These are computers, and they are stupid.

-John

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Well, stats from Waymo cars in Arizona show that they have an accident rate that is about 1/3 of the accident rate of regular human driven cars.

Can you please share a link?

And I will tell you right now, that if these fucking autobot cars drive the speed limit or less, I will run them over.

I am so sick and tired of these autobots that leave a car length at a stop sign.

Does anyone know if we are training new drivers to leave a car length at a stop sign? Or a stop light? Or from the car in front of them?

-John

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Originally Posted by arbol

Can you please share a link?

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All operators of autonomous cars must report all of their accidents to the NHTSA so there is a pretty good database of accidents.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wayg...hrome&ie=UTF-8

https://theavindustry.org/resources/...an%20benchmark)

https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/01/waymo-safety-report/

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Originally Posted by arbol

And I will tell you right now, that if these fucking autobot cars drive the speed limit or less, I will run them over.

I am so sick and tired of these autobots that leave a car length at a stop sign.

Does anyone know if we are training new drivers to leave a car length at a stop sign? Or a stop light? Or from the car in front of them?

-John

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Back when I took drivers ed back in the 80's we were taught to leave a car length between yourself and the car in front of you. I stay close but with the way people drive around Denver/Boulder you need to leave enough space so that you can bail from a lane where someone is surfing the internet on their phone ahead of you at a stop light.