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by dsnuh 8y ago
Do you have children? The flippant way you say that we should take the children away from their families makes me think not.
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by dsnuh 8y ago
My experience is that the more off-brand the player, the more lenient it is with what it will play. I had a crap Lite-On that would play anything.
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by dsnuh 8y ago
Trucks aren't just "sometimes preferred", they move far more tonnage than trains. https://www.bts.gov/content/weight-shipments-transportation-...
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by dsnuh 8y ago
Your evidence seems to contradict what you are saying. From your second link: "A total of 3,986 people died in large truck crashes in 2016. Seventeen percent of these deaths were truck occupants, 66 percent were occupants of cars and o
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by dsnuh 8y ago
My father is a retired truck driver, it'd be great to curse at each other sometime. :) My understanding is that the industry (and maybe this has changed or was not good anecdata to begin with) is rife with gaming of the regulations, wh
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by dsnuh 8y ago
I'm not saying I think trains will disappear, if anything, it seems they would likely benfit from increased capacity in the intermodal system, allowing them to move more of the type of freight they are well suited for.
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by dsnuh 8y ago
Which was worth more, the government funding of the interstate project, or the almost unchecked power and monopoly of the robber barons of the Gilded Age?
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by dsnuh 8y ago
Thrift stores are a cheaper and very reliable alternative to Fry's, if you are ever looking for one. I've never not seen a CD/DVD player at a thrift store.
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by dsnuh 8y ago
It would surprise me if another company didn't pick up the torch here. It sounds like Otto had a working demo of the technology. There's $800B+ on the table, someone is going to crack this market.
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by dsnuh 8y ago
Yes, I am imagining something like this, with self driving electric tractor trailers being orchestrated at huge stations with solar collecting roofs along the transportation corridor. Inspection and maintenance could be performed by human w
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by dsnuh 8y ago
Not sure how the context of what I said changes this? Yes, trains already exist and have existed much longer, and yet have obviously lost out to the truck.
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by dsnuh 8y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not...
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by dsnuh 8y ago
I think if you have a predictable accident, that's called negligence, and we have courts to deal with that.
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by dsnuh 8y ago
Right, I never said they didn't. But the trucking industry is still by far the main mode of moving freight within the US. https://amp.businessinsider.com/the-staggering-statistics-be...
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by dsnuh 8y ago
I don't see any indication in the article that they are stopping due to technical challenges. They already demonstrated it on the road, so it seems they were well on their way. It appears this project is a victim of politics and legal
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by dsnuh 8y ago
It is also checking brakes for functionality before you set out. There is an in-cab procedure too, not just a visual inspection. But I believe that both can be automated. The in-cab brake check is testing for certain pressures in the system
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by dsnuh 8y ago
The trucking industry is many many times larger than the rail freight industry in America.
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by dsnuh 8y ago
I'm saying if you limit the scope to tractor trailers hauling only 20/40 ft ISO shipping containers, then "loading/unloading" can also be done in an automated fashion. I'm saying that if you limit the problem s
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by dsnuh 8y ago
And often surrounded by land I would wager the government owns, which could be used to build the transfer stations upon. Maybe even a susbsidised incentive to get companies on board, so they don't have to spend their own time and capit
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by dsnuh 8y ago
Huh? I'm not saying they exist, just that it's not impossible for me to imagine these problems being solved or being minimized to a level that is no worse than current human driver would perform.
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by dsnuh 8y ago
Trucking absolutely dwarfs the train industry in America.
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by dsnuh 8y ago
I understand that the job encompasses other duties, my father is a retired truck driver. That said, my answer is "yes, I think they could, just as well, or better than any human". You could have multiple cameras on the load using
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by dsnuh 8y ago
Even if this was only available on Interstate 40, I think you would make a lot of money. Trucking is something like $800B industry, and a lot of that flows on I-40.
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by dsnuh 8y ago
Let's say we limit the application to just ISO compliant steel shipping container transport. It seems like we could apply much of the self balancing technology to trailer design to account for various load weights and distributions. Ev
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by dsnuh 8y ago
I think 50 hours would get you across Interstate 40 nonstop. But you wouldn't need to have the trucks go all the way. Just have transfer stations every 500 miles or so where the truck transfers the trailer and recharges/refuels. E
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by dsnuh 8y ago
There are already rules in place for human truck drivers that push the limits of what a human should be called upon to do for many hours at a time. Human truck drivers already have regular accidents due to fatigue. Replacing or augmenting l
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by dsnuh 8y ago
Yeah, I don't understand why they aren't doing something like this. Seems like a no-brainer to have a number of staging facilities along major transport corridors that the self driving trucks deliver to, leaving the last X miles t
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by dsnuh 8y ago
You're right, I added an extra zero. It's one trillion numbers per issuer. Credit card is 18 digits, which is where the 10^12 comes from.
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by dsnuh 8y ago
At the child dentist I take my kids to, they call men "Dad" and women "Mom". For example, "Okay, Dad, we're here to get a check up for John today? Just fill out this form, Dad." It's awful and I hate
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by dsnuh 8y ago
There may be only a handful that are well known, but that doesn't mean that there aren't more possible issuer numbers available. The first six digits make up the issuer identifier, so there are 10^6 possible issuers. Sure, it&#x27

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