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How do these trucks cope with adverse weather conditions? e.g. sliding down a hill on icy days, dealing with unplowed streets post-snowstorm, driving along wher
by sys_64738 5y ago
How do these trucks cope with adverse weather conditions? e.g. sliding down a hill on icy days, dealing with unplowed streets post-snowstorm, driving along where a cop is diverting traffic, or dealing with traffic light outage?
- olyjohn 5y agoThey don't. There is a safety driver on board. The trucks do a 7 mile closed loop. And I bet you money when weather gets bad, the good old fashioned human drives the truck. This is just another fucking non-event hyped by a news website in the realm of autonomous vehicles.
- QuercusMax 5y agoCitation for this? The second paragraph of TFA says: Walmart and Silicon Valley start-up Gatik said that, since August, they’ve operated two autonomous box trucks — without a safety driver — on a 7-mile loop daily for 12 hours. That sure sounds like no safety driver.
- leereeves 5y agoPerhaps they simply haven't had to deal with any of those conditions. Have there been icy roads, snowstorms, construction, or traffic light failures on that route since August?