SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill to require human drivers on board self-driving trucks, a measure that union leaders and truck drivers said would save hundreds of thousands of jobs in the state.

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    1 year ago

    Yes. Tractors already have a number of built-in visual and audible alarms when the onboard sensors detect things like veering, severe pitch, and traffic. Oh, that and it’s a driver’s job to watch and respond to road conditions.

    Not to also mention that student driver teachers perform a job like this already.

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      1 year ago

      Tractors aren’t traffic. That’s clearly very different.

      Student driver teachers, meanwhile, are teaching. That’s more than simply watching for mistakes, which would be an inhumanly boring job that I honestly don’t think anyone could do.

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        Exactly. And student drivers are only active for like 20-30 min at a time. A truck would be active for hours at a time.

        Instead of trying to build autonomous trucks, we should be building out rail and move more stuff and people that way.

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          Yeah, but they don’t need to react within seconds when there is a problem. They can zone out and nothing bad will happen.

          A driver-operator needs to be hyper vigilant at all times and react within seconds to any problems because at any moment the software could fuck up and kill someone.