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I wonder how an autonomous truck responds when a tire blows

peteradio 6y ago
Standard response is to explode the entire truck in place on the highway. You can upgrade for a nominal fee which will cause truck to pull to the next available side of the road in case of tire failure.
BurningFrog 6y ago
Probably calls for a repair guy like I would do?
Taylor_OD 6y ago
I wonder if they would respond better or worse than a human. Do tires blow often on large trucks? If not a trained system could have more fed data on what to do in that situation than a human who has never or rarely experienced it.
Retric 6y ago
Presumably the same thing human trucks do and keep driving. 7/8 is within the safety margin and 2 blowouts on the same trip is extremely rare. That’s the reason for a dual tire setup as it’s designed for this kind of redundancy.
- jessaustin 6y ago
  That is not the policy of drivers who wish to retain their CDL. Gradually disintegrating radials are a hazard to everyone on the road. It isn't as though blowouts are uncorrelated, anyway.
  - Retric 6y ago
    That’s the joke. The obvious choice for the AI is to slow down without applying full breaking power, find the nearest safe spot to pull over, and then call for assistance. But, boring yet practical solutions are hardly worth discussing.
    - coding123 6y ago
      It was a lone comment that actually has several compelling implications that we would hope the TuSimple company thinks about. Each step of that has to have functions related to those actions backed up by many neural nets. And if it's hardly worth discussing, why is it the only comment you replied to in this entire thread?
    - jessaustin 6y ago
      Sorry, I whooshed.
- bluGill 6y ago
  Most trucks are moving to the single tire setup for the higher efficiency.
Cthulhu_ 6y ago
Pull over and contact HQ? I mean it's a blown tire, not rocket science.
- coding123 6y ago
  What parts of "pull over" related to an autonomous semi driving on a freeway looking for a spot that's not sheer, a bridge, unstable rock, mountainous, long enough and doesn't leave the ass in the freeway, not blocking an exit, etc.. is not harder than actual rocket science?

Standard response is to explode the entire truck in place on the highway. You can upgrade for a nominal fee which will cause truck to pull to the next available side of the road in case of tire failure.

BurningFrog 6y ago

Probably calls for a repair guy like I would do?

Taylor_OD 6y ago

I wonder if they would respond better or worse than a human. Do tires blow often on large trucks? If not a trained system could have more fed data on what to do in that situation than a human who has never or rarely experienced it.

Retric 6y ago

Presumably the same thing human trucks do and keep driving. 7/8 is within the safety margin and 2 blowouts on the same trip is extremely rare. That’s the reason for a dual tire setup as it’s designed for this kind of redundancy.

jessaustin 6y ago
That is not the policy of drivers who wish to retain their CDL. Gradually disintegrating radials are a hazard to everyone on the road. It isn't as though blowouts are uncorrelated, anyway.
- Retric 6y ago
  That’s the joke. The obvious choice for the AI is to slow down without applying full breaking power, find the nearest safe spot to pull over, and then call for assistance. But, boring yet practical solutions are hardly worth discussing.
  - coding123 6y ago
    It was a lone comment that actually has several compelling implications that we would hope the TuSimple company thinks about. Each step of that has to have functions related to those actions backed up by many neural nets. And if it's hardly worth discussing, why is it the only comment you replied to in this entire thread?
  - jessaustin 6y ago
    Sorry, I whooshed.
bluGill 6y ago
Most trucks are moving to the single tire setup for the higher efficiency.

Cthulhu_ 6y ago

Pull over and contact HQ? I mean it's a blown tire, not rocket science.

coding123 6y ago
What parts of "pull over" related to an autonomous semi driving on a freeway looking for a spot that's not sheer, a bridge, unstable rock, mountainous, long enough and doesn't leave the ass in the freeway, not blocking an exit, etc.. is not harder than actual rocket science?