tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10092066.post2885920590059024157..comments2024-01-08T00:40:50.918-08:00Comments on The Dragon's Tales: Civilian UGVs: A Major Change is ComingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10092066.post-22118385414331722662008-09-11T20:17:00.000-07:002008-09-11T20:17:00.000-07:00Hi mbmichael!I'm delighted that you decided to ste...Hi mbmichael!<BR/><BR/>I'm delighted that you decided to step out of the shadows. If you would be so kind, do so more often.<BR/><BR/>Surprisingly, I have some experience with the trucker culture. I had a stepgrandfather that owned a trucking company before he sold it and my mother worked as a driver for Swift for a while.<BR/><BR/>Trucker culture also covers those that are 'just' drivers for the giant trucking companies as well as owners. Based on peaking, so to speak, it definitely has a culture all its own...and probably wouldn't survive having robotrucks being turned loose on it.<BR/><BR/>Automated trains might happen faster, indeed. However, I doubt many people would notice much.Will Bairdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07562404098136557872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10092066.post-21318139226654797422008-09-11T18:14:00.000-07:002008-09-11T18:14:00.000-07:00long-time lurker.trucker culture is already not "s...long-time lurker.<BR/><BR/>trucker culture is already not "smokey and the bandit" or "convoy".<BR/><BR/>"About 9% of the nation's 3.4 million truck drivers are independent owner-operators, according to the Department of Labor."<BR/><BR/>http://www.allbusiness.com/transportation/road-transportation-trucking-trucking/11484094-1.html<BR/><BR/>the more interesting question to me is how long before automated vehicles are allowed to utilize public freeways. if we had decent railroads, I'd expect trains to be first.mbmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14590002263792119542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10092066.post-37837082742384389102008-09-09T14:40:00.000-07:002008-09-09T14:40:00.000-07:00Trust is a big deal. Even if people can make cars/...Trust is a big deal. Even if people can make cars/trucks/etc. more efficient and safer in general, about the time an autonomous semi plows stupidly into a bunch of other cars/people, the general statistics won't matter. They'll have to be almost perfect before people will let them on the roads. That's my guess.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15808034942220416445noreply@blogger.com