Self Drive Hgvs Next Year On Our Motorways

[TWR]

That's going to be very interesting, there will be a Driver within the cab, will you feel safe?

[albaqwerty]

don't some cars have 'cruise control'? or have they stopped making them?
Why not have 'cruise control' for lorries?

I remember the old acronym GIGO

[Zacs-Master]

Lorries do have cruise control. But it takes a hooman been to switch it on. A lot of cars now have adaptive cruise control which slows your speed to the vehicle in front. It's a very wierd experience as a driver, trusting a machine over your instincts.

[jim360]

I suspect a good deal of the problem is that people seem determined to set higher standards for computers than they do for humans. The "chaos and carnage" in one sense already exists, what with around 2,000 deaths annually on British roads and 200,000 or so further injuries (figures somewhat rounded and there are annual variations). It's hard to imagine handing the bulk of driving duties over to entities that don't get tired, distracted or irritable wouldn't drastically reduce those figures, but I doubt that zero fatality rate is ever reachable. For some reason, a sizeable but not a total reduction isn't worth trying, for some people at least.

Maybe the most dangerous time will be when there's a mixture of traffic on the roads. Maybe not. It seems worth trialling, at least.

[albaqwerty]

thanks Zac.

I know which I'd prefer and it sure ain't a machine to decide which lane to move into etc etc
Unless the machine made sure the driver indicated before changing lane !