News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs. Parent comment

Re:The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automat... by samcheng on Monday April 25, 2016 @09:45PM (#11568841)
The geometry- and mechanically- related tasks seem like they would be ripe for automation. For example, the trailer reversing problem is related to the inverted pendulum problem, which is easily solvable by automated systems.

The judgement for when to stop with an unsafe load and wayfinding at the last 100 yards of a route are indeed tasks that I'd prefer to leave to a human for the time being. Maybe we'll have 'dock pilots' like we do for large cargo ships?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automat... by wheresmypasswd on Monday April 25, 2016 @10:10PM (#11568950)
Build a robot that balances this broomstick was a sophomore-level engineering course at my university. xD
[ Parent | on HN ]