ChatterBank1 min ago
How Would You Respond
to a convoy of unmanned HGV Trucks? I myself doubt this will work, why? there is too much against from the safety / Drivers point of view, I could control a runaway HGV could a computer? can a convoy foresee a traffic problem like debris / ice / blow out outs / un-secure loads / and many other issues that could happen on the Motorways, what do you think as private Motorist?
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Hopkirk // How are cars in lane two able to move to lane one and leave the motorway if there are ten trucks travelling like a train in the way? //
Have you travelled on the German motorways? On many of them overtaking is forbidden for vehicles over 7.5 tonnes and anything towing (even a car towing a luggage trailer) ie, they are restricted to lane 1 even on 3-lane motorways. This can result in miles of nose-to-tail lorries in lane 1 making leaving the motorway all but impossible.
Have you travelled on the German motorways? On many of them overtaking is forbidden for vehicles over 7.5 tonnes and anything towing (even a car towing a luggage trailer) ie, they are restricted to lane 1 even on 3-lane motorways. This can result in miles of nose-to-tail lorries in lane 1 making leaving the motorway all but impossible.
Of course, you never see multiple pile-ups on motorways where lorries have piled into other lorries and cars, do you? Computers can monitor far more sensors at once than human drivers can; they can look in many directions at once whilst monitoring the outside temperature and use wavelenths other than visible light to see through fog, rain etc.
The covey idea is daft as it blocks other drivers as mentioned. The safety stuff will be designed in. With less chance of getting into a runaway situation anyway when it does there is no reason for there not to be code that does what is best in that situation as it would in any other situation. "Fail safe" would be built in.
As a private motorist I have no objection to driverless vehicles once it has been proven safer than human driven cars. But no convoys.
As a private motorist I have no objection to driverless vehicles once it has been proven safer than human driven cars. But no convoys.
I don't understand why people assume driverless cars will be safer than driven cars. Technology, with all it's benefits can still go wrong and although I agree there will be back up systems that doesn't automatically mean the systems will "do the right thing". A different situation I know but take the air liner that crash landed on the Hudson river, would a computer even have considered it let alone achieved it?
It would be quite feasible for sensors to detect a rise in temerature throughout the vehicle, most likely far before a driver could. I once flagged down a very large coach full of passengers that had flames coming from the underside.
Once the coach stopped the fire ripped through the coach very quickly, nobody on the coach was aware of anything.
Once the coach stopped the fire ripped through the coach very quickly, nobody on the coach was aware of anything.
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