A. People seem to expect 100% safety these days. If they don't get it and they can blame someone else they will sue.
B. People want things done really cheap. More money in their pockets less leaving. Those at the top do this by paying as little as feasible to those at the bottom. Most folks do even those at the bottom hire the cheapest plumber to fit the sink. It's what companies strive for.
In the race to achieve A and B we pay drivers less and as long as we technically meet regulations we push drivers harder. Good drivers leave for better pay and/or better working environments. To fill seats we hire anyone we can and compensate by equipping our trucks with auto transmissions etc. We try to control accidents by adding technology. It's getting so it would be seen as liable if the technology exists and wasn't installed. At some point it will be legally required--IIRC stability systems are already required in new cars.
My fear is that in the future trucking will become like the airlines are now where more and more we're hearing that all pilots do is monitor automated systems. This actually is leading to avoidable accidents because they often have too much faith in the automation and they're bored/lulled into complacency after months/years of uneventfully watching the plane fly itself. They then fail to react to and correctly identify and fix problems when they do occur. A documentary I watched made, IMHO a good observation, that humans by nature are not good at monitoring things they are better suited to analyzing problems yet this has been taken out of the pilots duties. They are asked to basically monitor instruments for large portions of the flight and when something goes wrong to rely on checklist or a computer system to tell them steps to take to correct the problem.
A college professor told me some 30 years ago that he didn't think we would have a plane that flew itself because we couldn't accept the kind of accidents that would result from automated planes. We kinda accept weather and pilot error even but can we accept a software bug causing a plane to fly into the side of a mountain on a perfect day? How will this play out with trucks?
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