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Re:Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journ... by tablewatcher on Saturday April 09, 2016 @08:47AM (#11461018)
The lead trunk has indicators that the convoy is platooning, sure some people with interfere with it but for the most part when drivers start to recognise this on the road they are mostly going to stay out of the way.

>This technology looks hardly any better then Tesla's lane keeping assistant

So? It's the first step in removing a human driver. Are you assuming that this technology is not going to ever improve? The end game is a head office operator that controls a network of 50 trucks across a country remotely. It's just a matter of time until they get there.

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Re:Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journ... by visarga on Saturday April 09, 2016 @04:39PM (#11463204)
In the year 2020 a 12 year old girl could operate a fleet of 50 trucks through an open source NPM package (orders, planning, monitoring). You'd never suspect when you see her in person.
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