
It doesn't have any self driving features does it? At least they didn't talk about any (that I heard, my stream had major cut outs) during the announce in front of a crowd full of truckers.
I wouldn’t have linked it here if it didn’t.
The Tesla product page says it has “enhanced autopilot.” No idea what that means in practice, but it’s an autopilot. Or in this case, a truckpilot.
There was a great Guy Martin documentary on Channel 4 in the UK about this. If he looks familiar he is from the TT Closer to the Edge documentary (If you haven't seen it, you should. He's a one off.)
polypusher wrote:It doesn't have any self driving features does it? At least they didn't talk about any (that I heard, my stream had major cut outs) during the announce in front of a crowd full of truckers.
I wouldn’t have linked it here if it didn’t.
The Tesla product page says it has “enhanced autopilot.” No idea what that means in practice, but it’s an autopilot. Or in this case, a truckpilot.
Their enhanced autopilot is a system that does some lane-keeping and adaptive following for you - your hands still have to be on the wheel, but the car is doing most of the steering, even following lines around curves. I rode with some guys who both have Teslas at a connected vehicle training last month, and they explained how the system is really nice for long drives. It relieves you of the basic control of the vehicle, freeing up your attention and energy to more complex driving tasks, so it's probably a huge boon to truck drivers.
BadKen wrote:polypusher wrote:It doesn't have any self driving features does it? At least they didn't talk about any (that I heard, my stream had major cut outs) during the announce in front of a crowd full of truckers.
I wouldn’t have linked it here if it didn’t.
The Tesla product page says it has “enhanced autopilot.” No idea what that means in practice, but it’s an autopilot. Or in this case, a truckpilot.
Their enhanced autopilot is a system that does some lane-keeping and adaptive following for you - your hands still have to be on the wheel, but the car is doing most of the steering, even following lines around curves. I rode with some guys who both have Teslas at a connected vehicle training last month, and they explained how the system is really nice for long drives. It relieves you of the basic control of the vehicle, freeing up your attention and energy to more complex driving tasks, so it's probably a huge boon to truck drivers.
What are more complex driving tasks? Keep your hands on the wheel, feet on the pedals, and eyes all around are pretty much it.
ActualDragon wrote:BadKen wrote:polypusher wrote:It doesn't have any self driving features does it? At least they didn't talk about any (that I heard, my stream had major cut outs) during the announce in front of a crowd full of truckers.
I wouldn’t have linked it here if it didn’t.
The Tesla product page says it has “enhanced autopilot.” No idea what that means in practice, but it’s an autopilot. Or in this case, a truckpilot.
Their enhanced autopilot is a system that does some lane-keeping and adaptive following for you - your hands still have to be on the wheel, but the car is doing most of the steering, even following lines around curves. I rode with some guys who both have Teslas at a connected vehicle training last month, and they explained how the system is really nice for long drives. It relieves you of the basic control of the vehicle, freeing up your attention and energy to more complex driving tasks, so it's probably a huge boon to truck drivers.
What are more complex driving tasks? Keep your hands on the wheel, feet on the pedals, and eyes all around are pretty much it.
Driving tasks are categorized into Control (very basic functions like the pedals and steering), Guidance (interacting with other vehicles and following traffic control devices), and Navigation (route choice and following). The FHWA shows it as a pyramid here, arranging it from basic to complex:
It's often talked about for young drivers, because when you're just learning to control the vehicle, you don't have the capacity to address guidance or navigation. This is why you often learn control in a parking lot. Once you get comfortable enough with control and it doesn't dominate your mental capacity, you start driving on roads (performing guidance tasks). Your teacher probably handled navigation for you, as well as aiding in guidance.
So the Tesla "enhanced autopilot" handles control (maintains speed and direction) as well as some minor guidance tasks (adaptive cruise control, lane keeping). This can actually free the driver up to be more aware of the road around them, since they are not devoting attention to those lower level tasks, which was the experience of the drivers I spoke with. There's definitely a danger of the driver attributing more ability than the car has, or zoning out more if they aren't as involved in the driving task, but if you've been driving a while you're probably on autopilot for the lower-level tasks anyway. With professional truck drivers, this could be a very positive development for increased attention on the road as the truck performing low-level tasks may reduce fatigue on long trips.
BadKen wrote:polypusher wrote:It doesn't have any self driving features does it? At least they didn't talk about any (that I heard, my stream had major cut outs) during the announce in front of a crowd full of truckers.
I wouldn’t have linked it here if it didn’t.
The Tesla product page says it has “enhanced autopilot.” No idea what that means in practice, but it’s an autopilot. Or in this case, a truckpilot.
Their enhanced autopilot is a system that does some lane-keeping and adaptive following for you - your hands still have to be on the wheel, but the car is doing most of the steering, even following lines around curves. I rode with some guys who both have Teslas at a connected vehicle training last month, and they explained how the system is really nice for long drives. It relieves you of the basic control of the vehicle, freeing up your attention and energy to more complex driving tasks, so it's probably a huge boon to truck drivers.
Your hands are supposed to stay in the wheel, but nothing physically requires them to be there
ActualDragon wrote:BadKen wrote:polypusher wrote:It doesn't have any self driving features does it? At least they didn't talk about any (that I heard, my stream had major cut outs) during the announce in front of a crowd full of truckers.
I wouldn’t have linked it here if it didn’t.
The Tesla product page says it has “enhanced autopilot.” No idea what that means in practice, but it’s an autopilot. Or in this case, a truckpilot.
Their enhanced autopilot is a system that does some lane-keeping and adaptive following for you - your hands still have to be on the wheel, but the car is doing most of the steering, even following lines around curves. I rode with some guys who both have Teslas at a connected vehicle training last month, and they explained how the system is really nice for long drives. It relieves you of the basic control of the vehicle, freeing up your attention and energy to more complex driving tasks, so it's probably a huge boon to truck drivers.
Your hands are supposed to stay in the wheel, but nothing physically requires them to be there
The car does have audible and visible alerts if your hands leave the wheel for too long. If you ignore these warnings for too long, the car actually locks you out of autopilot until the car is parked. I don't know that Tesla is doing it right now but it has been suggested that the system could pull over on the side of the road and come to a stop if the driver does not resume control.
Until we get to Level 5 automation, some responsibility still lies with the driver. States are starting to pass legislation that clarifies the liability in these situations, but government naturally moves slowly and carefully whereas tech companies like to roll fast and agile. I have also heard advocates for new classes of drivers license that would allow you to drive a partially-automated vehicle, which I'm a fan of (along with periodic retesting for license retention but that's another story).
I found a decent summary video of the event. One way Musk described it in the event was that it would be very helpful for medical emergencies. If the driver is incapacitated, the truck can safely pull off the road and park and it will even contact emergency services.
absurddoctor wrote:ActualDragon wrote:BadKen wrote:polypusher wrote:It doesn't have any self driving features does it? At least they didn't talk about any (that I heard, my stream had major cut outs) during the announce in front of a crowd full of truckers.
I wouldn’t have linked it here if it didn’t.
The Tesla product page says it has “enhanced autopilot.” No idea what that means in practice, but it’s an autopilot. Or in this case, a truckpilot.
Their enhanced autopilot is a system that does some lane-keeping and adaptive following for you - your hands still have to be on the wheel, but the car is doing most of the steering, even following lines around curves. I rode with some guys who both have Teslas at a connected vehicle training last month, and they explained how the system is really nice for long drives. It relieves you of the basic control of the vehicle, freeing up your attention and energy to more complex driving tasks, so it's probably a huge boon to truck drivers.
Your hands are supposed to stay in the wheel, but nothing physically requires them to be there
The car does have audible and visible alerts if your hands leave the wheel for too long. If you ignore these warnings for too long, the car actually locks you out of autopilot until the car is parked. I don't know that Tesla is doing it right now but it has been suggested that the system could pull over on the side of the road and come to a stop if the driver does not resume control.
Until we get to Level 5 automation, some responsibility still lies with the driver. States are starting to pass legislation that clarifies the liability in these situations, but government naturally moves slowly and carefully whereas tech companies like to roll fast and agile. I have also heard advocates for new classes of drivers license that would allow you to drive a partially-automated vehicle, which I'm a fan of (along with periodic retesting for license retention but that's another story).
My new Audi Q7 has this feature. I drove from St Petersburg to Orlando in heavy traffic and the car did all the work. I only kept my hands on the wheel because the car complained (loudly) if I didn't.
Not to be outdone, PepsiCo orders 100.
Not to be outdone, PepsiCo orders 100.
This is an excellent crystallization of modern life in a single sentence.
“Technology akin to magic used to spread diabetes with incremental efficiency.”
Toyota and Pizza Hut are teaming up to make self-driving cars that could deliver pizza
Now Snow Crash is never going to be our dystopian future!
Toyota and Pizza Hut are teaming up to make self-driving cars that could deliver pizza
Coincidentally, I watched the episode of Black Mirror last night that revolves around a self-driving pizza delivery car hitting a pedestrian.
Down the roard, is there any reason a self driving car couldn’t be programmed to go (when it is not in use) to a self-filling up gas station anytime the gas tank gets below say half a tank? That way the human would never have to spend time at a gas station.
By the time self driving cars like that are available, combustion cars won't make much sense for the use case. Instead they'll charge at home (wherever "home" is) which is tech that exists now.
Supposing there is a use for a personally owned, fully self driving car with a gas engine, it should be possible to automate that process, but if you own the car are you ok with it going off in its own in the world? It's like a child. Very expensive and not amazingly smart.
For a lot of people it won't make sense to own the car personally, instead to subscribe or pay per use for the car, so it will charge at a home base and be maintained by humans.
I figure half the charm in a self driving car is that it can also be a self parking and self filling car. This will be made all the easier by electric vehicles as it would be a lot easier and safer to automate an electric charging process than automating the transfer of volatile fluids.
I figure self driving cars should be able to pick up the kids at school without requiring you to get out of your yoga class early. Figure anything you could use a chauffeur for, you could probably do with a self driving car.
Except as a human shield.
Looks like someone hasn't seen Musk's borderline pornographic gif of a robotic charger penetrating a Tesla.
Looks like someone hasn't seen Musk's borderline pornographic gif of a robotic charger penetrating a Tesla.
I am disappointed that you did not post said gif... then thought.. googling to find it might be an issue at work...
Someone needs to photoshop a dragon onto that...
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Someone needs to photoshop a dragon onto that...
onto which side?
"Bow bow... Ohhhh yeahhhhh"
Without a driver, the article says it can make the journey in two days instead of four. That's a fairly huge time saver.
Without a driver, the article says it can make the journey in two days instead of four. That's a fairly huge time saver.
This seems fairly inevitable, but it makes me weep a bit for that map that says the most prevalent job in most states is truck driving.
That's okay, truckers can get jobs as soldiers in the upcoming Mexican-American war.
The real victims here are the truck stop sex workers. Sex workers can't make money on Patreon any more, what are they supposed to do?
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