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I wonder if this decision was due to pressure from the transportation industry struggling to find workers in the last year(s). We know there’s a workforce crisis in the trucking industry, Amazon is having a hard time holding on to employees, and people are asking for more wages. So, the govt. rushes through a law that allows driverless trucks in order to offset the potential profit loss of having to pay workers a liveable wage.
I don’t think the current conditions led to this decision, though I’m sure that’s the transport ghouls long term intent. Even with this rule change, the tech isn’t anywhere near ready for primetime. It’s not a question of safety either, it’s a question of it actually working. There’s a big difference between actually existing autonomous taxis driving in Arizona and pulling several tons of cargo through the mountains on dubiously marked roads in highly variable weather conditions.
The scene from Logan where the automated semis don’t have to stop they just have to beep really loud so you get out of the way
This is how we find out Teslas don’t swerve to avoid black pedestrians or something
Teslas don’t swerve around stationary objects it can’t recognize.
There were 2 or 3 Teslas that drove full speed into stopped firetrucks because they didn’t recognize them.
There’s gonna be someone standing in the road that’s gonna get run over by a tesla trying to pass someone driving around the pedestrian.
I wonder if this will at least remove the liability buffer that Tesla has that when someone dies in an out of control fiery Tesla, if they touched the steering wheel it’s not Tesla’s fault
