FedEx Freight | Platooning

[truckingBORED]

FedEx Says Platooning Technology Could Revolutionize Truck Fleets

https://www.trucks.com/2018/07/10/platooning-technology-revolutionize-fleets/

Wake up road drivers. This is your CEO:

"Where do you see the technology for trucking going, whether it means fully autonomous or different kinds of platooning?

For the pickup and delivery model, we do not ever see that being driverless. We just do not feel that you can replace the professional driver on the pickup and delivery side; it’s just not feasible the way we look at it today."

 

[GMAN]

Yes, a computer is capable of making those decisions .

In one situation, it will make more calculations, and compute more variables, and possible outcomes than you will in a year of driving, and will react better than you.


5yrs ago, we had humans that could beat the best computers in chess.
Today, a computer has won the game before the human gets to his 2nd move

The pace at which technology is gaining is absurd..


Side note: I am very much an analog/manual mindset individual and prefer things that way
But, I am also very aware of where we are headed.

We can't get through a week without our computers handhelds not locking up/ crashing. Don't think the technology is going to be able to not crash a moving truck.

 

[truckingBORED]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cn...s/siemens-self-driving-ford-mustang-goodwood/

"Thankfully, speeds were kept pretty low, so while the Mustang was playing pinball with the hay bales that lined the hillclimb course, nobody seemed to be in any real danger. There were humans inside the vehicle during the run, and they did intervene several times to stop things from going totally awry during the 4-plus minute saunter to the top of the hill."

Maybe Siemens should have started with Platooning first!

 

[SwampRatt]

Better together: Peloton CEO talks platooning safety benefits

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/better-together-peleton-ceo-talks-platooning-safety-benefits

“We have a button that you press to platoon. We want to make sure when you press that button, you’re making your truck safer,” Switkes said. “Not just safer overall or in some abstract sense, we want to be safer and better than our best trucks on the road today.”

"Platooning technology can shrink the safe following distance between trucks from over 500 feet to as low as 30 feet. As safe following distance decreases, so does collision risk and average impact velocity, according to Switkes’ presentation."