Dr Damon:
yourhavingalarf:
harrawaffa:
Oh dear. You’ve slipped into the UKT character. You really need to get better at keeping them separate.Therein lies…
The rub. The harder he tries to appear as seperate people the more obvious it becomes.
You have some imagination fella but you are 100% wrong. Come on admin,Tell them please.
Admin won’t. It’s not difficult to open different accounts and hide that. The clever part is not giving away which other accounts you have…
the way that some people think autonomous vehicles are the future reminds me of how there used to be talk of ‘the paperless office’
sure there will be autonomous vehicles due to all the money being put in to them but they’re not going to replace the well established roads network with human drivers that we have just now. I can’t see the two co-existing
I mean…imagine an autonomous vehicle in India! It wouldn’t be able to move 
UKtramp:
Dr Damon:
Glad you are entertained but I hate to burst your bubble because I am off to NZ and I could not give two hoots whether you or anyone else on here believes me or not.I for one am looking forward to your return and to your info when your allowed to give it out.
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surprise surprise,as if on cue…it looks like the blind leading the blind again…
UKtramp:
Dr Damon:
Glad you are entertained but I hate to burst your bubble because I am off to NZ and I could not give two hoots whether you or anyone else on here believes me or not.I for one am looking forward to your return and to your info when your allowed to give it out.
Juddian:
Just skimmed through the so called report.The driver had to intervene during the journey a number of times which isn’t stated, so what’s changed? sod all, other than if said driver is only semi concentrating on the journey but has to be ready to take over at a moments notice, making the right decision at that split second (good luck with that mate), he might as well have been driving the bloody thing anyway.
I wouldn’t be searching out retraining for other work just yet lads
I doubt there will ever be need to retrain Juddian. Theres no way this ‘technology’ could ever be entirely driverless…
Anyone who drives a DAF with adaptive cruise control and AEBS will be able to tell you that self driving trucks are a loooong way off yet. Too many false positives, too many times it turns itself off in heavy rain or spray or when there’s even the slightest snow.
For those of us that don’t have mundane jobs plodding between RDC’s I think we’re safe. I would however love to see an RDC gatehouse facist getting all high and mighty with an automated truck [emoji23]
“Truck ran ‘mostly’ autonomously for hours at a time.” On long straight American roads that’s not really all that impressive neither is the distance covered again because the roads the truck was on aren’t very challenging.
The firm creating this tech states it doesn’t want to replace drivers anyway, just let the truck drive itself on the highways. So no driver is going to be redundant anyway.
It wouldn’t fair as well on a UK motorway either.
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nomiS36:
For those of us that don’t have mundane jobs plodding between RDC’s I think we’re safe. I would however love to see an RDC gatehouse facist getting all high and mighty with an automated truck [emoji23]
Ah, but all the gatehouse ■■■■’s will be Robocops! Cue “you have ten seconds to comply…”
The cyber battle of Asda RDC. How cool would that be!!! All the humanoids finally being grateful for the hard plastic chairs in the safe zone.
Must be a film in that somewhere. [emoji848]
IronEddie:
“Truck ran ‘mostly’ autonomously for hours at a time.” On long straight American roads that’s not really all that impressive neither is the distance covered again because the roads the truck was on aren’t very challenging.
Agreed I think the people on here getting all excited about this don’t really understand the technology used only complies with level 2 automotive automation, which is the same as Tesla and other Manufacturers use in cars which are already available.
I also would have thought those who profess a professional interest in the field of autonomous vehicle technology would have known that this company has been doing commercial runs like this from California to Texas for some time now, so this journey was just an extension of that as opposed to some great breakthrough in technology.
So it wont be a driver assessment any more it will be the truck doing the assessment on its self, and who do the costumers give out to if its late.
I would say there would be plenty of dozy trucks all giving out about not getting home for there rest on a Friday,
Its all a big joke and will never ever happen in general haulage, not even in your youngest kids life.
A To B and in a straight line only.
Dr Damon:
nightline:
Dr Damon:
Glad you posted that and not me! Yeah Euro, its amazing how fast the technology for autonomy is moving.
I am off to NZ at the end of this month where some of the latest adaptions are being tested.
Anyway I dare not say anymore or I will be accused of all sorts!Your no more going to new Zealand than you are a driver your probably a driver’s mate
Long may we have know alls like yourself on here it breaks the day up having to read your tripe I wouldn’t miss it
Yourself and your buddies are great entertainmentGlad you are entertained but I hate to burst your bubble because I am off to NZ and I could not give two hoots whether you or anyone else on here believes me or not.
So knowing NZ fairly well having lived there, tell us where you are going and give us some info of the place, the sort of thing you don’t find in a book and take a picture of yourself stood on one leg touching your head somewhere recognisable , that way it’s total proof .( most people don’t stand on one leg touching their head for a pic) go on we dare you.
nightline:
So it wont be a driver assessment any more it will be the truck doing the assessment on its self, and who do the costumers give out to if its late.
I would say there would be plenty of dozy trucks all giving out about not getting home for there rest on a Friday,
Its all a big joke and will never ever happen in general haulage, not even in your youngest kids life.
A To B and in a straight line only.
I believe your going to be shocked. I believe in around 10 years from now that most trucking will be autonomous. We will see them sooner than this going in straight lines as you put it, but certainly 10 years from now will be a different story.
UKtramp:
nightline:
So it wont be a driver assessment any more it will be the truck doing the assessment on its self, and who do the costumers give out to if its late.
I would say there would be plenty of dozy trucks all giving out about not getting home for there rest on a Friday,
Its all a big joke and will never ever happen in general haulage, not even in your youngest kids life.
A To B and in a straight line only.I believe your going to be shocked. I believe in around 10 years from now that most trucking will be autonomous. We will see them sooner than this going in straight lines as you put it, but certainly 10 years from now will be a different story.
Well then could you please explain why they don’t even have driverless trams or trains when this mode is on its own track and they can’t even do it for that
on reading about this journey the driver was there to fuel it up and pick up tickets when the truck does something daft. 
the sooner the better , pick up my benefits on a Monday and sit down the pub for the rest of the week ,my perfect job propping up the bar ,
nightline:
Well then could you please explain why they don’t even have driverless trams or trains when this mode is on its own track and they can’t even do it for that
There’s nothing for him to explain because your point is moot. The Docklands Light Railway has been driving itself for nearly 30 years. Maybe you’re not as smart as you think you are.
Olog Hai:
nightline:
Well then could you please explain why they don’t even have driverless trams or trains when this mode is on its own track and they can’t even do it for thatThere’s nothing for him to explain because your point is moot. The Docklands Light Railway has been driving itself for nearly 30 years. Maybe you’re not as smart as you think you are.
True, but the LDR runs on its own dedicated track. In a simple loop. Nobody is denying that you can make a truck, or tram or train or even an aeroplane, autonomous. That is simple and already done. It is integration into our everyday traffic that is impossible.
The only way to do that, is to separate the autonomous vehicles from the rest of traffic . And that means doing away with traffic as we know it now. And that will take more than “10 years”…
Olog Hai:
nightline:
Well then could you please explain why they don’t even have driverless trams or trains when this mode is on its own track and they can’t even do it for thatThere’s nothing for him to explain because your point is moot. The Docklands Light Railway has been driving itself for nearly 30 years. Maybe you’re not as smart as you think you are.
This came up in another thread a while back. Automation really works well when it runs on its own protected system. It’s not so good at being retro fitted into environments that are open to pretty random situations. The current road system is massively open to external factors. It’s a bigger challenge than appears on first glance. It’s more likely a redesign of the main road system will take place eventually to facilitate automation. It’s then automation will appear safer. Only because you’ve designed a system to baby it’s weaknesses. Insterting automated cars onto the current system will end in mishaps and shortcomings. There’ll always be compromises “oh it can’t do this track leading to that farm up on those welsh hills because the surface is terrible and there’s a really humped bridge you have to drive over at just the right angle” etc etc.
