Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journey across Europe

Re:Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journ... by a_imho on Saturday April 09, 2016 @09:44AM (#11461185)

Throw the fraction of the money used for promoting and developing self-driving and platooning, coupled with the cost of building roads to public transport, trains, tracks and ships and you will have a much more efficient albeit less cool system.

Tangential, but letting (semi) self-driven convoys on the road is quite irresponsible, imagine the headlines if they were to get in an accident.

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Re:Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journ... by ghughes on Saturday April 09, 2016 @04:38PM (#11463197)

Is it irresponsible if the self-driving truck is believed to be as safe or safer than a human driver? Humans get into accidents quite frequently.

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Re:Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journ... by a_imho on Saturday April 09, 2016 @09:00PM (#11464256)

If they did it for the sake of this challenge then it is an added risk imo, so yes (the real alternative is no human operated traffic at all). Some people believe a controlled car hack on a highway is safe, or at least not substantially more dangerous than everyday highway business, some car just break down on the commute.

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