World's First Self-driving Truck

World's first self-driving truck

Highlights: 10 years before they're offered commercially; goal is to eliminate human drivers.

I figured big pete would have run it off the road by now on cabbage patch.

Brett I'm not arguing the fact that we have the technology and know how to make these things possible some day. My whole stance on this is that I'm not going to worry about it because it's going to take an awful long time for these to effect my job.

I would agree with that.

I've got a brilliant idea. Automated trucks that have a compartment on top of the cab with a helicopter drone in it. When the truck approaches a delivery, it simply stays rolling on the highway while the compartment opens up, the drone takes off and picks up the shipment through an automated sliding door in the roof of the trailer, flies over and delivers it, then meets back up with the truck en route to the next drop. It's foolproof!

Actually that is a very interesting idea. Each truck could even have several drones that all operate independently and take packages from the truck to the home/business and then return.

There is a drone on the market right now that's made for filming yourself doing an activity. I can't remember exactly how they said it works but I think you have to wear something that the drone tunes into. Then, say you're snowboarding or riding a dirtbike - the drone will follow you at a certain altitude above or to the side and keep the camera pointed at you the whole time without any input on your part. You do your thing and your automated "camera man" will be there filming it all.

The problem with any computer is human error... All computers are perfect they do what they are designed to do problem is that humans told them what to do and we all know that all humans have errors.... Lol so if they can take the human error out of the equation then it's possible but I don't see it happening...

Huhhhh? What bush have you been living under ... ever heard of parity errors, surges, out of bound memory instructions? How about "Windows" blue screen of death? ... all computers are made by humans (as is all of the software) and contains the same imperfect architecture ... no such thing as a "perfect" computer ... not even "Apple" ...

Jopa

BSODs varied from hardware failure (seldom), improper software configurations (user error), and general software errors (generic driver told so-and-so non-sense).

I guess to regular ol' Joe though: It'd make sense. Lol. Last time I heard of a Windows distro BSODing: It was Windows 98 service pack 2. With the exception of Windows XP Pro and a program I wrote deliberately to eat all RAM for file I/O. Finally crashed the OS.