Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston. cnn.it/4iICfaW
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The vision only system limits them to well marked roads with highway only modes. What I had read in the past. The trailer must be picked up by human to bring the load into the city and distribute the cargo. Minimal interaction is needed until traffic is mixed in.
may 2, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 1 • view
When they leave the scene of an accident (that they caused and didn't notice) I want to see the police chase. I also want to see the CEO of the company in prison but I don't get what I want anymore.
may 1, 2025, 10:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Brilliant. youtu.be/WJjAmTTMFwI?...
may 1, 2025, 11:28 pm • 2 1 • view
I hate automated menus. I can't imagine dealing with the equivalent as a passenger in a moving car. If the car is moving, there needs to be a way to make it stop and unlock immediately, not sit through "your call may be monitored..." to talk to someone.
may 2, 2025, 12:14 am • 1 0 • view
Agreed. I can't even imagine if this same scenario happens with a cargo truck. It's terrifying!
may 2, 2025, 12:15 am • 1 0 • view
Who goes to prison when they drive over and murder someone because of a bad marking on the road or a sensor failure? The CEO or the sensor maker? Or the lowest wage coder? Or does the corporation get a fine totaling one day of profit?
may 2, 2025, 5:49 pm • 14 0 • view
Yeah no one's going to prison, it'll be a fine that the company won't pay and we'll all move on like normal, into the dystopian future watching tiktoks while driving
may 2, 2025, 8:15 pm • 5 0 • view
So the long distance truckers who voted for idiot trump are now in the finding out phase. Brilliant 😂🤣
may 2, 2025, 4:48 pm • 6 0 • view
Does it know what to do in a blow out? And does it look like humans are just being replaced? Is that the end game? Non billionaire extinction
may 2, 2025, 8:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Who is insuring this S H IT show because my car insurance has gotten outrageous and this has caused my be next level expensive
may 2, 2025, 8:45 pm • 2 0 • view
This does not sound safe. Or logical
may 2, 2025, 12:20 am • 1 0 • view
Spielberg should consider a remake of ‘Duel’.
may 1, 2025, 11:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Put those in Alaska. The, you know, dangerous hauls. Not common jobs the people need! Plus they'll most likely fuck up in Louisiana, those potholes can do some damage.
may 2, 2025, 9:55 pm • 9 0 • view
Execs put driverless trucks on the road and then call the working classes lazy because they don’t have jobs.
may 2, 2025, 5:03 pm • 13 0 • view
but can it speak English?
may 2, 2025, 1:14 pm • 4 0 • view
How many jobs is that going to destroy? How many drip drivers won't have a job now because of this?!
may 3, 2025, 11:36 pm • 0 0 • view
But why?
may 1, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh my! 👀 What could go wrong?
may 1, 2025, 9:57 pm • 1 0 • view
I am reminded of a saying I heard a long time ago: Just because we CAN do something, doesn’t mean we SHOULD. Will we ever consider the long term impact technology will have on all of us?
may 2, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Terrifying
may 2, 2025, 8:04 am • 4 0 • view
We won't need them anymore. The shipments have stopped coming from China.
may 1, 2025, 11:30 pm • 14 1 • view
They're gonna need them to transport people they want to deport and or to intern into labor camps (we probably shouldn't call them concentration camps), so no worries at all. Human drivers might yet object to doing the bidding of Nazis but AI should be cool with the instructions.
may 2, 2025, 12:49 am • 4 0 • view
This won’t end well.
may 2, 2025, 9:25 am • 17 0 • view
may 2, 2025, 10:08 am • 7 0 • view
Cargo-less driver-less trucks. You gotta love the Idiocracy that is this timeline.
may 2, 2025, 7:03 pm • 7 1 • view
Can't be any more dangerous than the average Texan on that route.
may 1, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 1 • view
Looooot of MAGA voters losing jobs coming
may 1, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I strongly feel any vehicle being driven by a computer should have visual indicators on all sides so human drivers can decide to back way off and not get anywhere near it.
may 1, 2025, 11:25 pm • 6 0 • view
Statistically, they are safer to be around than human drivers.
may 2, 2025, 12:04 am • 2 0 • view
I've been in a Waymo in SF. Because they are non-aggressive, the human driver's pullout in front of them and cut them off all the time. The car responds accordingly. My worry is something from Tesla. I think they attempt too much real-world testing to find the bugs.
may 2, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
Tesla’s will never be full self driving. They aren’t instrumented well enough relying only on cameras. Waymo is limited to a known area and drive very repeatable routes.
may 2, 2025, 3:34 am • 1 0 • view
Wouldn’t think that will go down well with Texas MAGA truckers..
may 1, 2025, 9:59 pm • 4 1 • view
Kind of feels like a train might be good
may 2, 2025, 10:49 am • 7 0 • view
long hauls are for rail ways or ships. basic logistics
may 2, 2025, 1:25 pm • 3 0 • view
My question is why?
may 2, 2025, 7:50 am • 0 0 • view
Don’t have to pay truck drivers.
may 2, 2025, 8:51 am • 0 0 • view
That’s like the worst ever stretch of freeway you could put robot cars. I was just on it midday today and the traffic was ass
may 2, 2025, 1:38 am • 2 0 • view
This is a terrible idea guys. Uh hey guys, this is a really bad idea.
may 2, 2025, 5:41 am • 4 0 • view
Yay! Maximum unemployment!!
may 1, 2025, 10:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I saw Maximum Overdrive. We know what comes next
may 2, 2025, 10:44 pm • 2 0 • view
This was my exact thought!
may 2, 2025, 11:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Within the next 48 hours someone will suggest stringing a bunch of these together and giving them a separate road and congratulate themselves on inventing the train
may 2, 2025, 5:23 pm • 58 0 • view
Took 3 hours, in these replies
may 2, 2025, 10:48 pm • 2 0 • view
The stuff on these trucks came from trains.
may 2, 2025, 6:09 pm • 5 0 • view
How do you like your Overdrive?
may 2, 2025, 2:19 am • 3 0 • view
Remember, until the cost of all the combined out of court settlements exceeds the price of a recall, there will not be a recall.
may 2, 2025, 1:31 pm • 4 0 • view
They are UNTRUSTABLE! We know the tesla car crashed and killed his driver on a road whem he trusted it!
may 2, 2025, 7:40 am • 1 0 • view
Narrator: There have been driverless vehicles since the invention of the mobile phone. Trust me.
may 2, 2025, 12:20 pm • 9 0 • view
What could possible go wrong?
may 1, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Why is this happening?
may 2, 2025, 1:19 am • 1 0 • view
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
may 2, 2025, 1:23 am • 1 0 • view
Because they refuse to pay their share.
may 27, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
Stupidest fucking thing they've ever done down there in the illiberal cripple's Tej-has, where they bounty hunt pregnant 🤰 womyn for sport 🏈 & profit 📈, & #DOGE chode the Natalist Leon pays zero in taxes; them #whites have just about cornered the market on #stupid, bad, white #men ideas 💡💡 & idiocy.
may 2, 2025, 7:33 am • 0 0 • view
Who gets the traffic ticket?
may 1, 2025, 10:34 pm • 9 1 • view
When a semi careens into me- will it spit out a little receipt with its insurance details?
may 2, 2025, 1:28 pm • 5 2 • view
Who knows?! I asked this question years ago and got no answer
may 2, 2025, 1:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Im sure the robots know the answer- noooo need to fret! The robots can handle everything.
may 2, 2025, 1:51 pm • 2 0 • view
No. That will be handled by the ChatGPT lawyer.
may 3, 2025, 3:31 pm • 2 0 • view
👏🏼👏🏼
may 3, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
may 2, 2025, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t want to be on the freeway with a driverless truck
may 2, 2025, 3:07 am • 3 0 • view
Yikes!!! Better avoid those roads ☠️
may 1, 2025, 10:53 pm • 1 0 • view
As that was where the last known sighting of Sarah Connor was.
may 1, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope they stay out of the left lane.
may 2, 2025, 12:29 pm • 1 0 • view
What could possibly go right?
may 2, 2025, 4:56 am • 5 0 • view
Need an updated version of the classic:
may 2, 2025, 10:06 pm • 4 0 • view
horrifying
may 2, 2025, 2:07 am • 5 0 • view
Looks like we are greenlighting the Duel sequel
may 3, 2025, 11:57 am • 0 0 • view
Driverless semi chasing a driverless Waymo...
may 3, 2025, 12:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Good luck with that 😕🥴
may 2, 2025, 9:08 am • 0 0 • view
I'm sure this will be fine
may 1, 2025, 9:54 pm • 5 0 • view
😄😄😄😄😄
may 1, 2025, 10:26 pm • 2 0 • view
So what's the plan here? Lay off all the truck drivers due to tariffs killing shipments, then when the tariffs end, replace all those jobs with self-driving trucks to avoid having to pay people? Kill an entire field of work, with no safety net for the workers affected?
may 2, 2025, 2:58 pm • 21 0 • view
And the Teamsters boss was supporting Trump, FAFO this has been a plan for a long time.
may 2, 2025, 3:39 pm • 12 0 • view
Stay off the roads that are on their routes!
may 2, 2025, 1:23 pm • 1 0 • view
I would not want to be the underwriter that issued the insurance for any of these accidents waiting to happen.
may 3, 2025, 12:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I predict multiple fatalities within 30 days or less
may 2, 2025, 6:50 pm • 16 0 • view
Agreed – quickly followed by trucking insurance carriers fleeing like mad.
may 2, 2025, 8:09 pm • 5 1 • view
A bit like Waymos on steroids
may 2, 2025, 11:19 pm • 2 0 • view
I predict a return of highwaymen and a renaissance in domestic piracy.
may 2, 2025, 7:18 pm • 28 1 • view
Good point! I didn’t think about how vulnerable to theft these vehicles are
may 2, 2025, 7:19 pm • 6 0 • view
And they're not Teslas.
may 3, 2025, 2:43 am • 0 0 • view
Put the cargo on a train!!!
may 2, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
👎
may 2, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Axing people's jobs to deliver goods that are too expensive to buy to begin with.
may 1, 2025, 10:35 pm • 4 0 • view
Calm down, 1 truck & safety driver.
may 2, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Has it passed the English test
may 2, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
There’s still a person in the truck ready to take over, so it’s not really driverless.
may 1, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
During the initial testing that started years ago, yes. These, no, per the article.
may 2, 2025, 2:47 am • 1 0 • view
then what's the point of them?
may 1, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m assuming this is a testing phase and the eventual goal is to not have anyone in the truck.
may 1, 2025, 11:43 pm • 2 0 • view
they wanna try it in Ca too.
may 2, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
Not according to the article
may 2, 2025, 12:25 am • 1 0 • view
What could go wrong?
may 2, 2025, 12:15 am • 2 2 • view
Wtf!? Seriously?
may 1, 2025, 9:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Am I the only one that this scares the shit out of?!
may 2, 2025, 5:00 am • 28 0 • view
No you're not the only one. I am so scared too, and so are millions of others. Why not have railways for God's sake !
may 2, 2025, 7:12 am • 3 0 • view
You are not the only one. This is going to kill people 😔
may 2, 2025, 5:03 am • 13 0 • view
Glad this shit isn’t anywhere near me. My kids and I don’t need to worry about being smeared along I80 by some robot semi. At least not yet.
may 2, 2025, 12:33 am • 27 1 • view
I mean if you're driving in Dallas, you're already used to totally brainless drivers
may 2, 2025, 2:13 am • 7 1 • view
Dallas drivers aren’t negligent- they’re malicious. Dallas is a traffic pvp zone
may 2, 2025, 7:22 pm • 2 1 • view
I lived in Ft Worth for 2 years. When I moved back to Denver I kept those plates as long as I was allowed so Colorado drivers would stay clear.
may 2, 2025, 11:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Those trucks better be fluent in English
may 1, 2025, 9:54 pm • 57 1 • view
I came here to say this
may 1, 2025, 10:03 pm • 5 0 • view
may 1, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
me too
may 1, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
😄
may 1, 2025, 9:55 pm • 1 0 • view
may 3, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
What happens when a driverless truck is smuggling undocumented immigrants?
may 1, 2025, 11:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Or, hear me out, maybe they could invent something that can haul hundreds of trailers at once using a single driver in lanes kept separate from regular traffic for safety. Call it the TRansportation Artificial Intelligence Network, or TRAIN.
may 1, 2025, 10:05 pm • 249 11 • view
❤️❤️This lol
may 1, 2025, 10:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Brilliant. But how on earth can we implement such a ludicrous idea?
may 1, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
The technology obviously doesn't exist yet. Maybe the aliens will help us.
may 1, 2025, 11:23 pm • 3 0 • view
TRAIN technology honestly sounds alien anyway. Here's hoping for a miraculous breakthrough.
may 1, 2025, 11:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Then imagine if you could use the same technology to move millions of people around and between densely populated urban centers.
may 1, 2025, 10:57 pm • 105 4 • view
You’re onto something here.
may 2, 2025, 6:23 am • 6 0 • view
I'm already getting calls from VCs.
may 2, 2025, 6:28 am • 9 1 • view
Jeez, give them driverless-train and the VC are gonna make the money flow.
may 1, 2025, 10:53 pm • 1 0 • view
may 1, 2025, 11:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Or an electrified version, the TRansportation Artificial Intelligence Network/Wide Ranging Electric Carriage Kinetic or TRAIN/WRECK. This is fun.
may 2, 2025, 12:12 am • 2 0 • view
For the win . . .
may 1, 2025, 10:22 pm • 4 0 • view
There are railways elsewhere in the world to do exactly that. This is an insane indea. They should make special roads for these trucks and not let them take the same roads with other human drivers.
may 2, 2025, 7:15 am • 1 1 • view
I like your thinking, Mr Snoofers.
may 2, 2025, 12:33 am • 2 0 • view
Nope.
may 2, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
I await the first fucking lawsuit
may 2, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Why haven’t they put some boxes up front 🤔
may 2, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
i dont think that a drive that you can make on a single tank of gas qualifies as "long-haul"
may 2, 2025, 6:47 pm • 5 0 • view
250+ miles (one way) technically qualifies as “long haul” in the industry, so Houston to Dallas is just about there. As for fuel: Depending on the load weight and the terrain, most 16-wheelers can travel between 1,000-1,400 miles on a 240-gallon fill-up, (based on around 6 MPG).
may 2, 2025, 8:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Teamsters going to be happy about rhid
may 1, 2025, 10:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Why? Who does this help
may 2, 2025, 12:02 am • 1 0 • view
Pension funds and private equity firms that like to buy fleets and run them into the ground.
may 2, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view
What could possibly go wrong?
may 2, 2025, 2:10 am • 3 0 • view
Dallas to Houston isn't exactly "long haul".
may 1, 2025, 10:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Eh. It’s not the end of the world guys. Only the most common job in nearly every state being replaced by automation.
may 2, 2025, 9:04 pm • 21 0 • view
It's not the end of the world. Long haul driving should be automated. It's safer for automated vehicles than humans. And driving all day is not so special a human activity that it needs to be protected from obsolescence. That said, we should transition with UBI & single payer healthcare.
may 2, 2025, 9:54 pm • 4 0 • view
I agree honestly. But it seems like we’ll have to have a revolution before UBI and Healthcare needs are met for everyone.
may 3, 2025, 11:56 am • 2 0 • view
That's true, if you'll keep waiting for government to provide us with UBI rather than taking matters into our own hands and building out UBI systems ourselves.
may 3, 2025, 12:17 pm • 2 0 • view
RIP all the drivers these kill.
may 2, 2025, 1:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Note to self, don't drive in Texas.
may 1, 2025, 10:13 pm • 5 0 • view
Even more important, don't be a woman of child-bearing years in Texas
may 2, 2025, 12:25 am • 5 0 • view
You can have separate lanes for these vehicles and then hook extra trailers on them to increase efficiency. A sort of “train” of semis.
may 2, 2025, 6:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Or just use a train
may 2, 2025, 7:19 pm • 7 0 • view
In an accident who will be liable?
may 2, 2025, 7:03 pm • 5 0 • view
The company.
may 2, 2025, 8:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Who will blame the automakers… who will blame the driverless equipment… who will blame the people who allowed it to be used… All the while the people injured will hopefully have their own coverage because they will be stuck in litigation hell, almost definitely.
may 2, 2025, 8:19 pm • 1 0 • view
So now, if the driverless truck has a choice to make, between killing 2 kids and their parents suddenly crossing a road, or going off the road and losing all of its cargo, what would the "driver" do?
may 1, 2025, 10:50 pm • 4 0 • view
Keep that in mind, those AI have to solve the "trolley problem" If the way they value human life is similar to how those company value human life, we're not safe.
may 1, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
This is a ludicrous take given given how shit humans are at driving. And no I'm not in favour of driverless trucks. Use fucking trains already
may 1, 2025, 10:59 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not about driving skill, it's about morale. If pedestrian suddenly cross in front of you, you'll most likely try to avoid them, even if it's means that there will be material damage. What about a driverless truck? Should they favour human life over material damage?
may 1, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
It's idiotic to think they wouldn't be programmed to avoid colliding with everything. The real question is will it understand what it's seeing in time to actually do something safe. The "trolley problem" nonsense is stupid. AI cars don't make "moral" calls they just follow training.
may 1, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view
So what are they trained to do? Avoid human casualty at all cost? What if they have to chose between 1 elderly and 1 kid? It's stupid to think the AI is not following a set of rule or algorithm that someone wrote. I can tell you there is probably a number written next to "Human life" somewhere
may 1, 2025, 11:12 pm • 3 0 • view
If anything their actions are based on their training and hardware limitations, thus their "morality" is borrowed from the people who designed the training. But AI cars don't evaluate things on that sort of basis "is it moral to run a red" it's just "input is this, good output is that"
may 1, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, that's my point -_- Then how do you think they value human life vs material damage in those algorithms? Dig a bit, and you will see that there is a $$$ value next to human life. I'm afraid of seeing that value.
may 1, 2025, 11:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Again, it'd either be trained to avoid obstacles or not. Training is basically give it inputs (pictures/sensors), and then watch the output (steer/brake/etc). If the output is good upweight those parameters, otherwise downweight, etc. So you'd train it to not collide with obstacles....
may 1, 2025, 11:25 pm • 0 0 • view
How do they react to being pulled over by cops?
may 2, 2025, 4:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Hmm, I wonder how much cargo theft is going to spike.
may 2, 2025, 12:02 am • 1 0 • view
HELL no!
may 2, 2025, 1:00 am • 0 0 • view
Wow, as if we don't already have the most atrocious drivers in the country here in Houston 🙄 Hope the driverless drivers seats in these trucks don't get shot up with all these fools with guns and road rage down here.
may 1, 2025, 11:04 pm • 5 1 • view
Why do they need steering wheels still?
may 2, 2025, 12:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Lmao 🤣.
may 2, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Or a cab.
may 2, 2025, 1:09 pm • 1 0 • view
How would refueling work?
may 2, 2025, 12:07 am • 1 0 • view
Just wait till some bad actor hacks into these things and makes them all drive as fast as possible and never stop (till they hit something that makes them of course.) We can be sure any programming will never include any language but English, so there is that.
may 1, 2025, 10:57 pm • 4 0 • view
That sounds like standard Tesla programming.
may 1, 2025, 11:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Simpsons did it
may 2, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
So who is responsible in the event that these DRIVERLESS trucks cause accidents?? Who insures these fucking DRIVERLESS trucks!
may 1, 2025, 10:57 pm • 4 0 • view
perfect analogy for the government these days, extremely dangerous, and nobody’s behind the wheel
may 2, 2025, 8:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Wonderful! More jobs being lost
may 1, 2025, 10:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Well it's Texas - no surprise about the safety of human life coming second there.
may 2, 2025, 3:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh boy. I think certain people underestimate the absolute rage that truck drivers have inside themselves. Never mind the technological BS that's going to happen with accidents. This is a recipe for chaos.
may 1, 2025, 11:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Eventually every vehicle will be this way and we’ll wonder how the hell we let people drive unassisted Accidents will be a thing of the past when every vehicle communicates with every other vehicle on the road And it will all be ride-share You won’t own a vehicle Bc you won’t need to
may 2, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view
This will get interesting next winter - I wonder how they'll deal with the phenomenon known as black ice. For those from other climes, it happens when it's been well below freezing all night, and dawn brings mist/light rain that coats everything with a clear ice glaze, slick and nearly invisible.
may 1, 2025, 10:21 pm • 7 0 • view
It's Texas. About as bad as all the other drivers. 🙄
may 2, 2025, 12:25 am • 2 0 • view
Is this a joke? So they're testing driverless vehicles and they decide to choose a freaking semi truck?? So when it's going 70 mph and the driverless tanker blows a fuse it can crash and kill 10 people in cars all in one swipe instead of a fender bender? What f****** genius thought of this?
may 1, 2025, 10:26 pm • 27 2 • view
Ca wants to do it too~ I'm so pissed!
may 1, 2025, 11:25 pm • 1 0 • view
This may shock you but they’ve been prowling highways for 5 years in “test” mode. Actually safer records than ones with drivers.
may 2, 2025, 12:02 am • 5 0 • view
That would shock me. Also? I absolutely do not believe it. Do you know why? They're still sharing the freeway with live drivers so given this is Texas? Yeah we're not being told the full story and they're definitely hiding things. I grew up there, you see?
may 2, 2025, 1:00 am • 1 0 • view
Have you meet actual truckers It's honestly shocking there aren't more accidents (and there are already a lot).
may 2, 2025, 1:41 am • 1 0 • view
Yes I have, they have a union, they have strict drug testing, and they're also human so I won't hold them to a popularity contest. And I would far prefer humans on the road than robots.
may 2, 2025, 2:03 am • 1 0 • view
Very few truck drivers are covered by a union.
may 2, 2025, 2:30 am • 3 0 • view
True, many won't or can't join and/or are independent. Unions only cover people that join, don't and it's easier to do whatever.
may 2, 2025, 7:45 am • 0 0 • view
I'd prefer whichever is safest
may 2, 2025, 3:32 am • 0 0 • view
I would prefer that there be no human drivers at all. RoboTaxis or trains only. No road rage, no drunk driving, no always wanting to be first and no distracted half asleep drivers texting and arguing with their mates.
may 2, 2025, 3:38 am • 0 0 • view
The problem is if there's a death or injury no one's held responsible and insurance just pays it out. You can't just injure people and let the insurance pay it every time there's no responsibility here. Just like the driverless Tesla that hit and killed a person. It didn't see a human in it's path.
may 2, 2025, 5:09 am • 2 0 • view
There are no driverless Teslas. It won’t go without someone at the wheel.
may 2, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Not anymore. But there used to be driverless Tesla's but they were banned because they're too dangerous
may 2, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Well if we're going to have our druthers, I'd prefer we could teleport.
may 2, 2025, 4:06 am • 0 0 • view
Oh, I do so wish that thing was invented already. But the William Shatner one, not the Jeff Goldblum one.
may 2, 2025, 6:13 pm • 2 0 • view
That is an excellent point
may 2, 2025, 7:56 pm • 0 0 • view
RoboTrucks don’t speed, they don’t fall asleep and wander across lanes. They don’t cut people off and don’t tailgate. They don’t get tired and don’t drive drunk or high or need Red Bull for those last few miles.
may 2, 2025, 1:17 am • 0 0 • view
But they go the speed limit which could easily be 60 or 70 mpr, they don't have a brain so they can't think independently and they may not see a child or person walk out in front of them just like the Tesla that killed a woman. So this way no one is held responsible?? Yep that's their motive.
may 2, 2025, 5:05 am • 2 0 • view
And they're actually programmed to have the worst accidents possible because that way the engineers can have more data. Humanity at least has the goal of wanting to avoid damage.
may 2, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
Just call those 10 people Hamas and call it a win from Republicans.
may 1, 2025, 11:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Your name is appropriate, you are confused.
may 2, 2025, 5:02 am • 0 0 • view
Shades of Final Destination incoming... ...how are they geared towards identifying a loose load?
may 2, 2025, 12:29 pm • 2 0 • view
oh goody, the only ones who would be harmed would be Texasses. Let them all be Turd Eaters Party.
may 2, 2025, 2:48 am • 0 0 • view
This is insane. Just risking other people's lives on the road. If something goes wrong on the road (e.g., a tire blows on a highway at a speed of 70 mph) who control them? They break suddenly ? They pull on the road slowly ?
may 2, 2025, 7:11 am • 2 0 • view
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may 2, 2025, 7:37 am • 0 0 • view
New dawn for piracy!!
may 1, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Simpsons already did it
may 1, 2025, 10:35 pm • 0 0 • view
may 2, 2025, 2:42 am • 20 0 • view
Best reference
may 2, 2025, 3:30 am • 3 0 • view
It’s only a matter of time before this goes horribly wrong.
may 2, 2025, 8:15 am • 2 0 • view
🤣 Spielberg, Duel ♥️
may 2, 2025, 3:03 am • 3 0 • view
That’s fucking scary. Don’t come here.
may 1, 2025, 10:55 pm • 1 0 • view
What the fuck is wrong with you people???!!!
may 1, 2025, 9:53 pm • 10 0 • view
This is an afront to radio communications culture
may 1, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Uhhhh noooooo not allowed. I’m the law now and I say this is VETOED
may 2, 2025, 2:29 am • 2 0 • view
Cool. Now if we only had products for them to ship...
may 2, 2025, 11:15 am • 12 1 • view
Now that's funny 😁.
may 2, 2025, 2:26 pm • 1 0 • view
What could go wrong?
may 2, 2025, 11:54 am • 27 1 • view
My thoughts exactly. I live in Dallas and drive those roads. I don’t want this. I’ll take a driver that’s been using meth for 24 hours over Optimus Prime any day of the week.
may 2, 2025, 11:58 am • 29 2 • view
If they had their own road with no variables, I can see this happening. There are just to many variables on a regular road for any computer program to efficiently function.
may 2, 2025, 12:00 pm • 5 0 • view
Right! What happens when a buggy software update is installed?
may 2, 2025, 12:01 pm • 4 0 • view
I don't see how any computer program could handle icy conditions, either.
may 2, 2025, 12:03 pm • 5 0 • view
Yeah idk about all that. I’d rather someone use a robot to drive home than drive intoxicated.
may 2, 2025, 12:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Hey now, no need to bring the Autobots into this. 😄
may 3, 2025, 12:32 am • 1 0 • view
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
may 2, 2025, 1:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Right, WTF! So what if they go haywire? How are they going to be stopped?
may 2, 2025, 12:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Right. As if driverless cars were such a great success.
may 2, 2025, 6:16 pm • 1 0 • view
That should be illegal.
may 1, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Boycott any business that uses this service. Simples.
may 2, 2025, 6:20 am • 5 0 • view
The thing is… isn't technological advancement a good thing? Surely that's not the problem. The problem is the rich hoarding more and more money. It's the unwillingness to use technology to improve the lives of ordinary people.
may 2, 2025, 8:39 am • 0 1 • view
I think it's clear by now that the rich aren't going to grow any empathy and change. So technology that sheds jobs purely for profit isn't going to benefit you or me, our families, or our children.
may 2, 2025, 8:57 am • 9 1 • view
See also: the self-checkouts at stores. Don't use them OR, if you have to, request assistance from a real life staff human (they'll love you for it!).
may 2, 2025, 11:12 am • 3 2 • view
The pharaohs needed humans to build the pyramids. They enslaved them and made them work under horrific conditions. This is what I mean - how people are treated isn’t necessarily correlated with technological advancement.
may 2, 2025, 11:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Totally agree. I was responding earlier to the way some technical advances will simply make things worse. BTW I like your profile pic - reminds me of the Saronic Gulf.
may 3, 2025, 5:23 am • 0 0 • view
Yes they have and it’s weird AF to pull up beside one. The one we saw had a passenger in the cab w no driver!
may 2, 2025, 10:52 pm • 1 0 • view
note to self, don’t drive between Dallas and Houston
may 2, 2025, 2:30 am • 2 0 • view
But why?? Just why?? Of all the things that need to be addressed and inventions that could actually HELP American citizens, why are we inventing shit to take away jobs?
may 1, 2025, 10:31 pm • 22 1 • view
I think someone still drives it. Just remotely. Although dont tell MAGA those are teleworking jobs...
may 1, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
So billionaires can make more money..literally that's why
may 1, 2025, 11:24 pm • 12 1 • view
Yea, I know it. I just need to vent and point out the atrocity and absurdity of it.
may 1, 2025, 11:38 pm • 4 0 • view
This is I will admit tangential but one of the early inventors of remote operated trucks and partial AI trucks was retired truck driver. He thought it would be soothing on the mind and the spine to be able to drive the truck remotely. You get to sleep in your own bed at night etc.
may 1, 2025, 11:42 pm • 1 1 • view
That makes some sense, I admit. As long as people don’t lose their job, I’d be for it.
may 2, 2025, 2:30 am • 1 1 • view
and rhetorical questions aren't meant to be answered...imsho.
may 2, 2025, 12:34 am • 0 0 • view
They can drive 24/7 365 days a year without pesky drivers that demand wages and benefits. Why wouldn’t a trucking company use them?
may 2, 2025, 12:03 am • 1 1 • view
Good let that mistake kill Texans. If the people there let dumb ass ideas like this happen, well let it affect them first!
may 1, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
When they get in an accident, who is responsible?
may 2, 2025, 10:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh look...a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
may 1, 2025, 10:45 pm • 11 0 • view
What do you mean? They can go 24/7/365 with no rests and no human parasites that demand wages and benefits.
may 2, 2025, 12:06 am • 5 0 • view
Argh my bad. I forgot about those annoying humans! 😂
may 2, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
I appreciate a few things that Texas is doing in regards to deregulation so more housing can be built. That being said, Texas and a few other red states are leading the charge in creating a dystopian U.S.
may 2, 2025, 12:11 am • 2 0 • view
Soon to be followed by payload-less trucks.
may 2, 2025, 11:50 am • 1 0 • view
😡😡😡😡😡
may 2, 2025, 11:49 am • 1 0 • view
📌
may 1, 2025, 10:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Just in time to deliver the empty barges of products from China 🙄
may 2, 2025, 9:07 pm • 31 0 • view
The can ship product-less shipping boxes.
may 2, 2025, 10:09 pm • 4 0 • view
The goal is to never bring back those truck drivers once the products start being shipped in.
may 3, 2025, 12:39 am • 2 0 • view
The majority of vehicles who honked in support of our May Day rally were Truckers. In a deeply red Texas city. They know what's coming - in the near & distant future. (AI is happening. I hope they can transition into another occupation. They won't be the only ones affected.)
may 3, 2025, 3:40 am • 4 0 • view
Just in time for empty ports and nothing for them to haul.
may 2, 2025, 12:41 am • 7 0 • view
I’m staying on the east coast:
may 1, 2025, 10:37 pm • 3 0 • view
I wonder, who'll be responsible if the truck ends up killing people
may 2, 2025, 12:40 am • 1 0 • view
As in pedestrians or colliding with other vehicles
may 2, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
What could possibly go wrong?
may 2, 2025, 1:02 am • 5 0 • view
Heads up, fellow Texans — stay off I-45! 😳
may 2, 2025, 4:11 am • 1 1 • view
Good lordt that stretch of 45 is NOT where I would run a pilot program.
may 1, 2025, 11:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Damn, scary shit
may 2, 2025, 10:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Another reason to avoid TX
may 1, 2025, 9:54 pm • 8 0 • view
Awesome! Doesn’t mention if the truck they are using is electric or not. I would hope they would be using electric.
may 2, 2025, 1:03 am • 0 0 • view
they still won't let you merge
may 2, 2025, 6:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Houston drivers + driverless semis? Nothing bad could possibly come of this! (I'm assuming the driverless truck training model wasn't built around someone going "assume the drivers are all unpredictably psycho! No, that's not nuts enough, make it weirder!" for about 17 iterations.)
may 2, 2025, 12:06 am • 2 0 • view
I feel like it's only a matter of time until these things are targeted by thieves.
may 2, 2025, 4:48 am • 3 0 • view
Get Wile E Cayote in your gang. Paint road markings that veer off to one side and down the side of a cliff
may 2, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 1 • view
Or, y'know, box the semi in with vehicles which will force it to slow down and stop for safety purposes allowing the trailer to be looted. Unless you pay for a police escort, in which case, you might as well just hire a driver.
may 2, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 1 • view
Or... Have a motorcycle match the speed of the truck, slowly move closer and closer, and then have the pillion hop onto it with an acetylene torch to cut off the trailer If we are doing a heist movie could steal the payload all the different ways
may 2, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
It’ll make interesting litigation in the courts if there’s an accident.
may 2, 2025, 9:46 am • 1 0 • view
www.craftlawfirm.com/autonomous-v... IF?
may 2, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 1 • view
What could possibly go wrong?
may 1, 2025, 9:56 pm • 3 1 • view
Worst idea ever. Terminator meets The Road Warrior. Please keep it in Texas, will you?
may 2, 2025, 4:53 am • 0 0 • view
Do they have to speak English?
may 1, 2025, 11:10 pm • 1 0 • view
No, no. That's not terrifyingly scary. Not at all.
may 4, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
I wonder how many jobs will be lost..
may 1, 2025, 9:59 pm • 1 1 • view
Wouldn't bet on these going that far, so my guess is not many
may 2, 2025, 7:33 am • 0 0 • view
Yup...
may 2, 2025, 12:38 pm • 10 0 • view
I STILL have weird nightmares about this movie. Parents let kids watch ALL kinda shit back in the day with NO second thoughts. 🤣🤣
may 2, 2025, 5:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Ha! Maximum Overdrive was the first thing I thought of.
may 2, 2025, 1:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow. Drivers beware.
may 1, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
may 2, 2025, 6:21 am • 6 0 • view
This is ridiculous.
may 2, 2025, 6:03 am • 1 0 • view
😱
may 1, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
So weird... here I thought Musk was gonna unleash this technology and yet the article claims a company called Aurora is the one doing this. I wonder what their stock price is? 🫠
may 2, 2025, 8:59 pm • 2 0 • view
I think I’ve seen this movie before.
may 1, 2025, 10:29 pm • 40 2 • view
I know it’s consider the worst Stephen King movie (because he directed it on cocaine). It has a soft place in my heart.
may 2, 2025, 12:36 am • 6 0 • view
Wait what
may 2, 2025, 1:17 am • 2 0 • view
He based it on one of his stories. screenrant.com/maximum-over...
may 2, 2025, 1:20 am • 9 0 • view
Driving that train high on cocaine 😆 thanks for sharing. I've got to see it now
may 2, 2025, 1:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Dang, you beat me to the punch! That was the first thing I thought of too.
may 1, 2025, 10:51 pm • 3 0 • view
BUT DO THEY SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!!!!
may 1, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Perfect timing. Just when things to haul will be less and less thanks to tariffs. Another good reason to avoid TX.
may 1, 2025, 10:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Should run for office next. They’d probably be more present and competent than 50% of our elected officials.
may 2, 2025, 5:44 pm • 2 0 • view
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may 2, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh so a non-English speaking human is unsafe but we’re gonna trust a robot to drive something that can be a literal death machine okay
may 2, 2025, 2:11 pm • 20 0 • view
This is what I’m saying?! Thank you!
may 2, 2025, 5:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Simpsons already did this.
may 2, 2025, 12:18 pm • 1 0 • view
This seems like a bad idea.
may 2, 2025, 8:36 pm • 35 1 • view
It is also of questionable legality if there isn't a person in the truck. Aurora is suing the Federal gov to force them to relax a safety regulation, which that article fails to mention. From a thread on the issue and complications: bsky.app/profile/anic...
may 2, 2025, 10:24 pm • 8 1 • view
Innocent people, families, are going to be murdered on the highways by rich greedy Corporate Assholes who could care less if deaths happen. We all know who's pushing this insanity and doesn't care if people are killed. We Know!!
may 2, 2025, 8:42 pm • 18 2 • view
I also worry about job loss as humans get replaced by tech.
may 2, 2025, 10:00 pm • 5 0 • view
I don't think it is. I've ridden in an autonomous WayMo many times, on the chaotic streets of San Francisco. This seems safer and easier than that. If it's safer than long-haul human drivers (who famously often push their limits on sleep), would you agree it is a good thing?
may 2, 2025, 9:52 pm • 2 0 • view
If it’s proven safer. But I also worry about job loss as technologies replace humans.
may 2, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
They haven't been proven safer. That'd take far more testing & disclosure than any of the robot companies have done or allowed and more than regulators require. US vehicle regulations are permissive. If the mfg attests/claims their tech is safe enough, then it is permitted until proven otherwise.
may 2, 2025, 10:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't know that that's true. If you have some credible references, I'd be interested to learn more. But I do know that DoT has worked with the robot companies and that the regs ARE doing something. There's a reason WayMo is allowed to operate autonomously and Tesla isn't.
may 2, 2025, 10:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Which, AV safety needing vastly more evidence or permissive by default US vehicle reg and esp AV reg? WRT safety, see myth #11 of Prof. Phil Koopman, who has written much more on this if you want more detail or links: safeautonomy.blogspot.com/2021/10/debu...
may 2, 2025, 10:49 pm • 1 0 • view
There is no US Federal regulation preventing Tesla from operating autonomously. None. California and some other states have regulations limiting uncrewed operations, but many states are extremely permissive, eg Texas, Arizona, Nevada, and Oklahoma.
may 2, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Uber claimed they did not need to comply with California's AV regulations and had their unpermitted robots driving in SF, inc running red lights, until DMV cancelled all their vehicle registrations. Then Arizona Governor welcomed them slamming California, until Uber killed Elaine Herzberg in Tempe.
may 2, 2025, 10:56 pm • 1 0 • view
GM Cruise criminally mislead Federal regulators re the safety of their system. They also misled California regulators, while racking up 4 million miles of what DMV determined were "not safe" robot driving in SF. All of which only came out after their robot ran over & dragged a woman underneath 20ft.
may 2, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I hear your examples, but I make decisions based on data. How many human drivers hit and killed people in those same timeframes? WayMo has been EVERYWHERE in SF and if they were causing accidents (let alone killing people) we would hear about it and it would be stopped. It sure seems to be safe.
may 2, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
In general, the federal government has little power over motor vehicles. I'm sure there are some interstate commerce exceptions, federal highway rules, and of course the DoT budget coercion.
may 2, 2025, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
This is great. Thank you.
may 2, 2025, 11:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Job losses from technology are inevitable and have always existed. Driving all day does not lead to human flourishing. It was fine while it was needed, but doesn't need special protection from obsolescence. What I want is Universal Basic Income & single-payer healthcare so people can transition.
may 2, 2025, 10:03 pm • 22 6 • view
Your points are logical & make sense, but we don’t have a government, regardless of party, willing to provide UBI & single payer healthcare. Too many donors/entities profiting off systems that aren’t focused on every day Americans. I doubt we’ll see either of those programs in my lifetime.
may 2, 2025, 10:27 pm • 3 0 • view
I definitely agree about our modern dysfunctional government. But we are in a time of great change. We have basically suffered an internal/technical/administrative coup d'etat and I think the Overton window of what's possible is going to have to open up if we want to re-build a functioning society.
may 2, 2025, 10:40 pm • 3 0 • view
I agree. I want to be hopeful but I feel like the coup plotters have been playing a long & complex game, & the opposition & the rest of us have been asleep at the wheel. So many critical institutions have been captured or weakened.
may 2, 2025, 10:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep. We're in a really bad position.
may 2, 2025, 11:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Why do they have steering wheels?
may 1, 2025, 11:59 pm • 1 0 • view
For manual movement
may 2, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
Wtf. Hheeelllll naw.
may 1, 2025, 10:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Terrifying
may 2, 2025, 7:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh fuck this!
may 1, 2025, 10:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Can we just prioritize keeping jobs for once.
may 1, 2025, 10:35 pm • 2 0 • view
that sounds so much more dangerous than a car what the fuck
may 2, 2025, 9:05 pm • 7 0 • view
A lot of people will lose jobs... In Austin, Waymo has been self-drive Ubering and Tesla self-driving Uber vehicles hit the streets in Austin in June. A lot of Uber drivers will lose their livelihood.
may 2, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
may 2, 2025, 2:42 am • 1 0 • view
....just out of curiosity how is truck going to prevent itself from being hijacked because it seems to be a rather sweet temptation.....
may 1, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1 0 • view
I imagine a truck with a driver would be much easier to hijack than a truck controlled by a computer.
may 2, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
…not sold on that… if the rig has expensive safety measures, maybe, but there would be ways to take one out…regardless there may be no other choice since fewer young men or women want the job of truck driver…
may 3, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0 • view
They know computers crash sometimes right... right?
may 2, 2025, 8:02 am • 3 1 • view
Yet another reason to avoid Texas
may 1, 2025, 9:51 pm • 67 0 • view
Brake check teams Go!
may 2, 2025, 12:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Just tell me it’s not a tesla
may 2, 2025, 2:50 am • 2 0 • view
Wow, Dallas to Houston doesn’t even have a direct train route people can take but they’ve now figured out driverless freight trucks? And just in time for all the supplies to dry up now that ports are empty from the tarrifs.
may 2, 2025, 2:34 pm • 15 0 • view
So based on Trump's Executive Order requiring all truckers to speak English, where do these fit in?
may 1, 2025, 9:59 pm • 6 0 • view
I mean what could go wrong?
may 1, 2025, 9:58 pm • 3 0 • view
One more reason to stay the hell out of Texas.
may 2, 2025, 2:13 pm • 10 0 • view
One bwhahahahahahahahaha.
may 2, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Not good
may 2, 2025, 2:55 am • 2 0 • view
You'd think we could devise a better system of moving large amounts of freight between cities that doesn't require putting heavy, dangerous vehicles in amongst cars. Perhaps something with a separate carriageway. And with, say, a physical guide rail to eliminate the need for complex control systems?
may 2, 2025, 6:24 am • 42 1 • view
What sorcery is this you speak of???
may 2, 2025, 7:43 am • 2 1 • view
Oh man, this thread 🤣👍
may 2, 2025, 11:55 am • 1 0 • view
Madness, I say!!! Heresy, even, to suggest such locomotion as you have. Why we'd need an entire infrastructure of these guides spanning the whole country.
may 2, 2025, 7:40 am • 14 0 • view
We surely couldn't use the ones that already connect Dallas with Fort Worth! That would be suicide!
may 2, 2025, 8:55 am • 8 0 • view
Something needs to happen like this. A friend of mine is an older truck driver. So many younger drivers have left the job, he is working extra days. Not sustainable… old guys on long hauls. Not looking forward to the wrecks & lawsuits during this infancy period.
may 2, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Well that's terrifying.
may 1, 2025, 9:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Houston we have a problem someone has brake check a driver’er less truck, the dam thing stopped on the highway, nobody can get it to move. The freeway back up for miles.
may 1, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Simpsons did this and it said Truck Drivers are worthless and out of the job.
may 1, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
No driver looking at a cellphone, or speeding, driving without sleep. Hmm maybe
may 2, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
They have ways to monitor for those
may 2, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Do these trucks only have LiDAR that is defeated by a mild mist and AIs that don't understand the idea that, if you can't tell if a person is in front of your giant death machine, you should brake? In other words; are they Teslas?
may 1, 2025, 11:11 pm • 0 0 • view
my understanding is that teslas don't have LIDAR because musk was too cheap and thought cameras would be enough.
may 2, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
Jus one computer glitch can provide a multi-car & truck pile-up. Lovely.
may 2, 2025, 12:19 am • 0 0 • view
Wrote this years ago. Seems relevant again. geoffnesnow.medium.com/73-mind-blow...
may 2, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
We never got the high speed rail from Dallas to Houston, but at least we have terminators on the road now. I hate it here lol
may 2, 2025, 1:39 pm • 14 0 • view
What are the hauling? The ports are empty. Murrica great yet?
may 2, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
But can they pass the literacy test?
may 1, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
that's a BAD BAD BAD idea, till someone cuts one of them off and the computer system goes berserk and slams it into an overpass
may 1, 2025, 9:52 pm • 10 0 • view