Victa1:
Wouldn’t be me sitting in that seat anyway!
youtu.be/XZxZC0lgOlc
So what if you’re watching youporn on that iPad, and you get to the vinegar stroke when it starts screaming at you to TAKE CONTROL?!?
I mean it’s bad enough when the wife does it… Don’t think I could handle a computer mocking me too
The older generation of drivers are always telling us how easy we have it nowadays with all the improvements in haulage and the technology in today’s lorrys and I’m sure the previous generation were telling them the same and so on.
So I’ve always wondered how are we going to be telling the next generation of drivers (or whatever they will be called) they have it so easy and it looks like this is this is the answer.
It’s hard to believe but we will be known as the “real drivers” who had to actually control every movement the lorry made for 9 or 10 hours a day and how one lapse in concentration could cause countless lives to be lost! Then we will finally get the recognition and respect we deserve 
the maoster:
BillyHunt:
just got to fit this new cassette player in & im ready.Cassette pah! Now if you’d said a nice 8 track we’d be talking business Billy.
I’ll swap a typewriter for a Betamax !
Fine on desert roads and on wide open empty motorways. No good on UK roads. Our jobs are safe lads.
DaiDap:
Victa1:
Wouldn’t be me sitting in that seat anyway!
youtu.be/XZxZC0lgOlcSo what if you’re watching youporn on that iPad, and you get to the vinegar stroke when it starts screaming at you to TAKE CONTROL?!?
I mean it’s bad enough when the wife does it… Don’t think I could handle a computer mocking me too
According to what I’ve read, you have 5 seconds then it slows down and stops.
Just imagine, you’re on the vinegar stroke and it stops right next to a crowded bus stop 
rob22888:
Fine on desert roads and on wide open empty motorways. No good on UK roads. Our jobs are safe lads.
Give it 10 years and see if you can still say the same.
Still think all these vehicles are still going to need a driver of some sort. Even if every vehicle was like this and they spoke to one another, as was pointed out on top gear, what happens when a kid runs out in front of it, is a computer going to decide whether to hit the kid, swerve onto the pavement and kill others or swerve into oncoming vehicles and kill someone also how will it cope with bad weather, snow or ice as someone else has said these computers maybe over cautious with cyclists etc.
Also I do store deliveries where you have to go into tight car parks, now I’m sure the computer will get good enough to work out how to get onto bays but who is going to sort out the problems when the reverse isn’t possible because some buffoon has blocked the access.
Aeroplanes aren’t there yet and there are a lot less hazards in the air to avoid than those on the busy streets of our roads.
wing-nut:
rob22888:
Fine on desert roads and on wide open empty motorways. No good on UK roads. Our jobs are safe lads.Give it 10 years and see if you can still say the same.
+1
m1cks:
m1cks:
able to drag its knuckles along the floor, like a 100 percent genuine, dyed in the wool British Agency Trucker can …Picture this… security guy at RDC “Giz ya keys drive and take your sorry ■■■ off to the drivers room”. Cue the red glowing light and the horrible crunching noise as the security guy realises the clipboard is slowly getting inserted into his ■■■■ - sideways…
FTFY
:lol::lol::lol:
“We believe that these vehicles and systems are ready.” Sorry, that doesn’t inspire any confidence at all in me.
Toddy2:
the maoster:
BillyHunt:
just got to fit this new cassette player in & im ready.Cassette pah! Now if you’d said a nice 8 track we’d be talking business Billy.
I’ll swap a typewriter for a Betamax !
I don’t suppose you’re interested in some potatoes and some ink are you? I don’t have much parchment left but I’ll throw that in as well…
pepsifarr:
Also I do store deliveries where you have to go into tight car parks, now I’m sure the computer will get good enough to work out how to get onto bays but who is going to sort out the problems when the reverse isn’t possible because some buffoon has blocked the access
Got to a drop yesterday where a customer parked in the door to the warehouse. Forkie was in the warehouse putting one of my two pallets away. Couldn’t get out. I had to wait while the customer had a natter. You have to laugh.
Also, across the world, for various reasons, we have a passion for old vehicles. Some are classics, some are just cheap old bangers like mine.
So, what happens when one of these ‘automatic vehicles’ asks my old ■■■■■■ Beemer what it’s intentions are and gets no response?
its no surpize to me that there will be trucks driving themselves in the future, going be todays drivers who are already half automatic driving, its a much needed helping hand they need as they can not handle gear boxes or seem to be able to get themselves around the country without a sat nav. so why not make the truck do everything that is needed as the drivers today are a waste of time and money
desypete:
its no surpize to me that there will be trucks driving themselves in the future, going be todays drivers who are already half automatic driving, its a much needed helping hand they need as they can not handle gear boxes or seem to be able to get themselves around the country without a sat nav. so why not make the truck do everything that is needed as the drivers today are a waste of time and money
Just remember when you retire these waste of money drivers today will be delivering your shopping or the good you buy over the net!
I am sure the old drivers would of thought you was a waste of time huh when you got unloaded by a forklift when they would handball it and think nothing of it.
face facts, you are not aware of modernisation to the workforce or to set in your ways to embrace change,
wing-nut:
rob22888:
Fine on desert roads and on wide open empty motorways. No good on UK roads. Our jobs are safe lads.Give it 10 years and see if you can still say the same.
I’ll be happy just to be here in ten years time!
Driver or not that is one sweet looking truck 
Well I don’t know about anyone else but I for one am looking forward to cooking pasta alle vongole and watching old episodes of the sopranos while the lorry drives itself down the m6 
Lets hope that these trucks are not off the road for over a month at a time because you cant get spares. It makes me laugh about the technological world fibre to the home, super fast broadband, moving from mega bytes to tera bytes and beyond, still relies on the man with the shovel to put the duct in the street for the cable.
It’s definitely getting closer, from October this year new legislation will mean all new trucks will have to be fitted with EBA (emergency brake assist) and lane departure warning system.
People think that drivers just drive ! good luck with the ignorant goods in then !
