Posted by BarnyardEngineering on August 16, 2021 at 16:22:56 from (76.179.209.4):
In Reply to: Driverless Big Rigs posted by john in la on August 15, 2021 at 18:58:40:
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You mean like the Indian or Pakistani fellow that parked his 18-wheeler halfway out in the intersection this afternoon? While he fiddle-pharted around with jumper cables.
The intersection was uphill so he could have easily let it back to get it off the main road but either he didn't think of that or he ran it out of air so he couldn't move it.
Stupid driver decisions are not limited to computers, and as an engineer I am quite insulted that you think that engineers are too stupid to think of those kinds of eventualities. I would expect the truck to have tire pressure monitoring, and be programmed to pull off the road BEFORE a blowout. Engines have had sophisticated monitoring for 25 years; all you need is for the AI to pull data from the engine computer, and be programmed to pull over when certain codes are seen.
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