Driverless Cars Legally Hit Roads as California Issues Licenses; Truckers to be Unemployed

Townhall.com ^ | May 26, 2014 | Mike Shedlock

[Vendome]

LOL

I wrote the same thing, below.

Freepers.

[xzins]

Apparently, in regards to the trucking industry, now is not the time for tort reform.

They kill someone by putting one of these rigs on the road in a boneheaded way, and that person should be allowed to own their company.

Rail does the same thing and within probably the last 20 miles, and especially with the new uniform cargo containers.

[Carry_Okie]

It is absolutely fascinating that the Teamsters’ Union is about to be undone by such a left-leaning corporation as Google.

[Vendome]

Taxi companies and even Uber will feel the pressure.

No more being picked up by a driver who smells like a two week old pastrami and salmi sandwich, who I can’t frickin understand and has no clue what the quickest or most expedient route is.

[Tennessee Nana]

They kill someone by putting one of these rigs on the road in a boneheaded way, and that person should be allowed to own their company.
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I don’t want their company...

I want my grandchildren alive...

[xzins]

If they kill one of my grandkids, I’m going for the throat, TNana.

[Fungi]

Good, let the cops go after something other than 36 in a 35. But don't worry, there will be cameras for that. Caesar always gets his pint of blood.

[Starstruck]

Totally driverless cars are but a single step away. All that needs to happen is for California to eliminate the requirement that someone has to be in the car at all times to take control.

Maybe taxis and delivery vehicles, but I'm not seeing a big demand for cars driving around with nobody in them.

[GladesGuru]

Let’s see:
1. No more truck drivers driving drunk or drugged.
2. No more truck drivers falling asleep at the wheel.
3. No more truck drivers veering into the other lane thanks to ‘Pavement Princess’ acts, Chicken Choking, ad nauseam.

Sounds great at first, but a lot of rural private property is supported by truck drivers. This could result in significant loss of private property as displaced drivers are forced by the Tax Man to sell or abandon their property.

[Wonder Warthog]

I think truck drivers are pretty safe. They do a heck of a lot more than just steer the truck to the destination. There is a great deal of "on-rig" maintenance that has to go on to keep the complexity that is a "big rig" rolling.

Where "driverless" will help will be to let the driver "catch forty winks" on long inter-urban stretches so they will be fully alert and capable when the inevitable "needs a human" things happen.

[I cannot think of a name]

As long as no programs are created that allow the computer to text, tweet, or otherwise f-around on the internet.....

they will be an improvement over the asshats I put up with everyday.

[fella]

Achmed really loves this idea.

[Colorado Doug]

What could possibly go wrong?

[USNBandit]

Can computers predict furloughed teamster drivers chucking stuff out in front of them on the freeway?

[Moonman62]

[al baby]

But computers can get hacked. Virus blue scream of death

[SevenofNine]

So future car going be Knight Rider KITT????

[dfwgator]

What could possibly go wrong?

[null and void]

Willie Green, izzdat you?

[Delta Dawn]

Either all cars will have to be computer operated or none of the cars should be allowed to be computer operated. The reaction times between man and machine are not compatible.

Machines operate by an On/Off decision. Humans operate on varying shades that run the gamut from black to white.

People will die needlessly.

Wait until one of these cars has a mechanical breakdown or a blown tire. Replacing the human driver will be easier said than done.