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Re:The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automat... by massysett on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:46AM (#11570742)
I imagine they would start out only on multi-lane, limited-access highways. The small number of entry and exit points would make it much easier to program the truck. Such roads carry the bulk of long-distance truck traffic anyway.
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Re:The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automat... by mantas on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @07:13AM (#11570850)
Once you get away from highly populated and developed areas, there're lots of single-lane roads. Let alone that single-lane roads are used as backups when inevitable accident happens on multilane. Of course, there's not as much traffic in such areas as in those with multi-lane highways.
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Re:The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automat... by kuschku on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @07:30AM (#11570919)
Well, the current tests with self-driving trucks are almost exclusively by european carmakers on German roads – where 2 to 3 lanes are common about everywhere, and trucks are limited to 80km/h or 100km/h anyway.
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