Freight Dog:
I wouldn’t lose sleep over it too much. What can you do anyway? If trucks go fully automated, rail will first - its easier. Bound to happen at some point but how far in the future? Can’t say. What’s to do. Train for something else that’s being automated/dumbed down.
The trouble with trains is…the driver is, with the ‘conductor’ (or travel supervision manager - whatever their fancy name is now) responsible for the passengers in the event of an emergency. So drop a driver, but still have to employ a certain number of staff to baby sit the pax.
Freight Dog:
I wouldn’t lose sleep over it too much. What can you do anyway? If trucks go fully automated, rail will first - its easier. Bound to happen at some point but how far in the future? Can’t say. What’s to do. Train for something else that’s being automated/dumbed down.
The trouble with trains is…the driver is, with the ‘conductor’ (or travel supervision manager - whatever their fancy name is now) responsible for the passengers in the event of an emergency. So drop a driver, but still have to employ a certain number of staff to baby sit the pax.
Ok, to tighten similarities more to being compatible (rather than pax trains - relevant to buses) think of freight trains. If manless automation were to hit transport hard then freight rail would be the ideal candidate first, providing the money was right.
I was alluding to it being pointless worrying. All transport is being more and more advanced to varying degrees as are a lot of jobs involving any manual skill (dirty word on here that creates debate). Humans won’t be happy until we’re like the fat slobs in that film Wall-E
Amazing how some drivers think they are more intelligent than the engineers that design these type of things. Can’t understand why some are still driving trucks if they are so clever.
If these driverless trucks get a few numpties off the road I’m all for it.
lefkasman:
Amazing how some drivers think they are more intelligent than the engineers that design these type of things. Can’t understand why some are still driving trucks if they are so clever.
If these driverless trucks get a few numpties off the road I’m all for it.
■■■■■■ hell, read some of the other threads on here and you’ll see that some lorry drivers are the font of all knowledge, or think they are. It’s a very strange creature, the ‘always knows better driver’.
They’re trying to get Trucks automated under the pretence of making roads safer, but the real motive is to cut costs and make the rich richer. Lorry drivers in this country (and all others) should stand united against this obvious attempt to eradicate our livelihoods.
I was in a food factory and they have the driveless forklifts. These state of the art machines run at a snails pace doing the most simple job over and over again. They are either going at a snails pace or they stop and wait for instructions. Meanwhile there are just as many forklifts with drivers whizzing around these things like bats out of hell getting the goods moving. Driverless truck will be a success for specific tasks in some areas. Say a dedicated road similar to a tram system where the truck is just travelling that same road day in day out doing exactly the same thing. Even then it would be supervised and there would still be years fo teething problems. A good example might be a warehouse in a town that is 1500 mtrs from a rail port. Every 2 hours or so a driverless truck leaves the warehouse loaded with a container. The truck drives down a straight road at 20mph and stops at the sensor on the side of the track similar to say Doncaster rail port. The truck on hitting the sensor electronically releases the twist locks and a crane also automated comes along and lifts the container and places it on the automated train. I can’t see why that situation would not work overseen by one manger in a control room.
In this country we cant even operate things on rails safely such as fairground rides and trains, this has got so many variables this country wont be any where near ready to use it in our lifetimes.
i think the cost of this technology will mean it will never catch on after all most company’s cant manage more than 8 pound an hour and they want to deduct your break so i cant see it so no not worried at all
lefkasman:
Amazing how some drivers think they are more intelligent than the engineers that design these type of things. Can’t understand why some are still driving trucks if they are so clever.
If these driverless trucks get a few numpties off the road I’m all for it.
Although drivers are a pretty special Mensa level IQ bunch, apparently my own abstract problem solving abilities is in the 99th percentile, its not a big stretch to understand that an engineering group will need a think tank of experienced drivers for fine tuning of particular algorithums that the programmers wish to use in order for a truck to drive itself safely.
One problem is that as this forum shows once a gaggle of drivers get together for a discussion it often ends in a drunken rant at each other. This obsticle can be overcome by the introduction of pictures containing scantily clad females driving Fiat 500,s or Minis.