Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business

jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah that’s about 2 and a half round-trips between Dallas and Houston, that’s…not a lot to be calling this thing ready to go and pulling out the safety drivers.

  I wonder how these handle accidents, traffic stops, bad lane markings from road construction, mechanical failures, etc.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That figure is without a human in the truck, not with a safety driver. I.E, they’ve done a bunch of testing beforehand.

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  • GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Most rigs go at least 1,000,000 miles and that isn’t isn’t even end off life. You’ll be paying not much less than new for a rig that only has 100k, that’s practically brand new. These systems should have 100 million proven miles. These things weight 80,000lbs which can be very hazardous materials.

    You should see the pile ups semis cause in low visibility. Even with really good lidar, I hesitant to say autonomous trucks can be safe running off independent systems on full mixed use roads.

    We could add those systems to all roads to feed back to semis to know conditions and hazards miles before they reach them. We could build new smart roads for all autonomous vechilce to travel on separately.

    Or we could just end the 100+ year old railroad cartel. Could move people and cargo with ease. But that isn’t profitable.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The one article I heard on TechLinked talked about them using lidarr.
    So better in every way than a tesla.
    Assuming they are top mounted, they have a better scanning coverage than a regular car.

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    • futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Hmm, I thought they were using ligers. I’ll have to go back and read that again.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Take this source as you want. Couldnt find much about it.

        Since 2020, Aurora has been deploying Class 8 trucks integrated with its Aurora Driver technology, which contains its proprietary LiDAR. To date, Aurora Driver has traversed over 1,200 miles without a driver present. As the company looked to launch driverless trucks as a service called “Aurora Horizon” in 2024, we reported it had secured $820 million in additional funding to help it reach commercial operations.

        electrek.co/…/aurora-first-company-deploy-class-8…

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        The Aurora Driver, with proprietary FirstLight lidar that can see over 450 meters ahead, has the ability to spot and react to pedestrians up to 11 seconds sooner than human drivers at highway speeds at night.

        aurora.tech

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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It would be more interesting to know how many miles they completed with the safety driver in the vehicle.

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  • futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You’d think that, but you’re talking about Texas, where corporate profit always wins over people’s safety and well-being.

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• 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s 5 one way trips. The article says the trucks run from Dallas to Houston which is about 250 miles according to google. It does mention that over 4 years it’s made 10,000 deliveries but I wasn’t sure if that meant as a company or with the self driving trucks but had a driver in the truck for the 10,000 deliveries. It only specifies that the 1,200 miles has been done without a person in the truck.

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• JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Its enough to prove the concept.

  If it saves 1% of operating costs trucking businesses will be falling over themselves to implement it.

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nah no one’s going to bother with new tech for 1% - that’s crazy.

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