Driveless Cadillac by 2017

[kstruckcountry]

That is my problem, everything is connected now. Would it really be that hard for someone to hack into a car? Hack it, fire it up, and let it take itself right to the chop shop. No thanks.

[Cowpie]

Well, from everything I have read regarding where they are heading with autonomous commercial trucks, I see some serious bottle necks occurring. These things will be operating in the 55 mph range, and they will have all the safe vehicle space stuff programmed in. Every time a 4-wheeler cuts in too close in front of one of these autonomous trucks, it is going to slow or brake to keep safe following distance. Then another 4-wheeler cuts in and the cycle continues. It is not unreasonable to see these things going 45 mph in 65-70 mph heavy traffic. Really find if hard to believe that things will then be safer. Speed does not kill, else everyone at Daytona would be dead. It is differential speed that kills. Autos with this stuff can be one thing, commercial trucks are quite another. There are just too many variables that folks who live in cubicles have no concept of. After over 3 decades in commercial trucking, i have no worries that my business is quite secure to long after I am retired before this stuff even becomes much of a reality in the real world. It would be lot of fun watching the fiasco of an autonomous truck running down, say, I-35 between Dallas and Austin, or the tri-state around Chicago.

 

Makes one wonder how some idiot with road rage is going to take it out on a computer driven vehicle!

[LaserBlueZ71]

Well, from everything I have read regarding where they are heading with autonomous commercial trucks, I see some serious bottle necks occurring. These things will be operating in the 55 mph range, and they will have all the safe vehicle space stuff programmed in. Every time a 4-wheeler cuts in too close in front of one of these autonomous trucks, it is going to slow or brake to keep safe following distance. Then another 4-wheeler cuts in and the cycle continues. It is not unreasonable to see these things going 45 mph in 65-70 mph heavy traffic. Really find if hard to believe that things will then be safer. Speed does not kill, else everyone at Daytona would be dead. It is differential speed that kills. Autos with this stuff can be one thing, commercial trucks are quite another. There are just too many variables that folks who live in cubicles have no concept of. After over 3 decades in commercial trucking, i have no worries that my business is quite secure to long after I am retired before this stuff even becomes much of a reality in the real world. It would be lot of fun watching the fiasco of an autonomous truck running down, say, I-35 between Dallas and Austin, or the tri-state around Chicago.

 

Makes one wonder how some idiot with road rage is going to take it out on a computer driven vehicle!

You a trucker too?

 

I was born to a trucker and raised by a trucker, taught the right way!

[Cowpie]

Yeah, grew up around trucking on the farm in the 60's, but really didn't start at it till '82 while living in Alaska.

[MikeNH]

Cowpie those backups ready happen in Michigan.

 

There is tons of truck traffic and most seem limited to 60-65. Limit here is 70 but realistically folks do 80 or so. Get one truck trying to pass another on what passes for a grade around here and you'll get traffic backed up for miles doing 40.

[Cowpie]

Yeah, I frequent MI a lot. Speed limit for autos/pickups is 70, but speed limit for commercial heavy trucks is 60 mph, state wide. Whenever you have trucks hitting hard pulls, already slower than the regular flow of traffic, and they bog down on the pull, it really messes things up.

[kt88]

Well, from everything I have read regarding where they are heading with autonomous commercial trucks, I see some serious bottle necks occurring. These things will be operating in the 55 mph range, and they will have all the safe vehicle space stuff programmed in. Every time a 4-wheeler cuts in too close in front of one of these autonomous trucks, it is going to slow or brake to keep safe following distance. Then another 4-wheeler cuts in and the cycle continues. It is not unreasonable to see these things going 45 mph in 65-70 mph heavy traffic. Really find if hard to believe that things will then be safer. Speed does not kill, else everyone at Daytona would be dead. It is differential speed that kills. Autos with this stuff can be one thing, commercial trucks are quite another. There are just too many variables that folks who live in cubicles have no concept of. After over 3 decades in commercial trucking, i have no worries that my business is quite secure to long after I am retired before this stuff even becomes much of a reality in the real world. It would be lot of fun watching the fiasco of an autonomous truck running down, say, I-35 between Dallas and Austin, or the tri-state around Chicago.

 

Makes one wonder how some idiot with road rage is going to take it out on a computer driven vehicle!

 

This is why I'm interested in seeing how they develop the "super cruise." I feel like its going to work similar to these trucks so if you get cut off its going to slow you down to gain back the safe travel distance then speed back up.

 

I really don't think you will see "driverless" vehicles outside of cities for a long time, and when I say cities, I mean downtown cities with no highways involved. A true driverless vehicle won't have any way of actually controlling the vehicle, you would be introducing a human element into a system that HAS to be completely autonomous, which is why i say you won't see anything outside of cities. Computers are just as good as we are at figuring out if some moron is about to cut us off.

[truckofwinandawesome]

Well, from everything I have read regarding where they are heading with autonomous commercial trucks, I see some serious bottle necks occurring. These things will be operating in the 55 mph range, and they will have all the safe vehicle space stuff programmed in. Every time a 4-wheeler cuts in too close in front of one of these autonomous trucks, it is going to slow or brake to keep safe following distance. Then another 4-wheeler cuts in and the cycle continues. It is not unreasonable to see these things going 45 mph in 65-70 mph heavy traffic. Really find if hard to believe that things will then be safer. Speed does not kill, else everyone at Daytona would be dead. It is differential speed that kills. Autos with this stuff can be one thing, commercial trucks are quite another. There are just too many variables that folks who live in cubicles have no concept of. After over 3 decades in commercial trucking, i have no worries that my business is quite secure to long after I am retired before this stuff even becomes much of a reality in the real world. It would be lot of fun watching the fiasco of an autonomous truck running down, say, I-35 between Dallas and Austin, or the tri-state around Chicago.

 

Makes one wonder how some idiot with road rage is going to take it out on a computer driven vehicle!

 

or as they say, its not the fall that kills you, its the Sudden Stop when you hit the ground!

[PMattras]

Maybe (driverless) I could own a vehicle for when I am a 100 years plus. I might not know (at that age) where I will be going but I will get there safe and sound.

[Act]

It's already here just get out of your car when it's moving