In my opinion, self-driven cars and “platooning” has the potential to revolutionize the transport industry over the next 50 years. From a technical perspective, platooning has potential to minimize fuel consumption, optimize traffic congestion. On the other hand, with the vast amount of calculations in the environment needed to be performed such as weather, road debris & car positioning, the technology needs to be highly capable calculating such tasks, maximizing safety for passengers. One disadvantage of self-driven cars is the economic implications it presents. For example, self-driven cars have the potential to disrupt and the transport industry causing a reduction in jobs for taxi-drivers and driving instructors. In addition, in the future, if self-driven cars with artificial intelligences capabilities are able to make conscious decisions, I believe self-driven cars should not pursue the roads which increases safety risk. A solution is to ensure the self-driven cars have good moral character.
Well, I gotta complete disagree with you. Automatic/self driving trucking will absolutely never take over, especially not this platooning technology. A single truck with one person, can haul several trailers with ease and be able to problem solve way more problems on the road then an automated system can. Making this “platooning” technology obsolete already. There’s no way it is more effective or efficient for several single trucks to be each pulling a single load to one destination. What AI is going to be able navigate off roads, with extremely steep mountains ice and weather? And be able to get out of the vehicle, put on or take off chains, or do any engine or trip safety maintenance?
That's fantastic! Question: how can I learn more about what you guys are doing? I live in Brazil and I don't know if someone of Scania could help me here about learning about this process of platooning, self-driving trucks etc.
The brake test seems to illustrate to me the vehicles aren't actively communicating with each other but rather only reacting on to each other which is really a very basic way of platooning. If the vehicles' systems were communicating the tail truck would know exactly what the lead truck is doing without having to actively see it. If the lead truck would break the tail truck would then brake at the exact same time. As it is shown now it just seems to cascade into a ripple effect as in the first truck brake, the second one reacts to that, then the third and finally the fourth. Sure, the systems react far faster than a human would but the truck only reacts when the reaction gets cascaded through the line.
That's the use of Cooperative Adapative Cruise Control (CACC) technology in vehicle platooning. Each vehicle would have something called a "CACC feedforward controller" to forward information from the lead vehicle to the rest downstream. Now if the lead vehicle were to suffer from packet loss or a cyber attack that disables the feedforward controller on the lead vehicle, then the entire platoon downgrades to Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), relying on information only from the vehicle in front of it via radar sensor, which is like you said in your 1st sentence a "basic way of platooning" and only "reacting to each other".
I think even with platooning the trucks will be dependent on a driver. If you e.g. have to drive through citys, someone must take over for more precise driving. They will get cut off from red lights, predestrians and ciclists. Also whenever something goes wrong the driver must be there to solve that. They can make the platooning happen, but still every truck needs a driver to over take when its needed. So I dont think ppl will lose their jobs. Its just gonna be shifted a bit, as it should be. Ai should support us, not replace us.
@@chomp5558 When progress is made productivity goes up and that incentivizes growth and more employment. And a highly productive job pays more, with the cost of production lowering due to economies of scale.
But hey if machines taking over jobs is a problem let's go back to produce cars by hand, clothes by knitting and farming by putting seeds individually and harvesting with a bucket and a hard-working latino
They should legalize open pipes. Like, what if there were certain area’s with ‘no open pipes signs’. Like in a city or a suburbs. It would mae a lot of truckers happy
