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0 pointscreer2y ago0 comments

In many places in the US, the road system is already insufficient. Certainly completely insufficient in California. There is no space for self-truck traffic to move significantly slower than driven-truck traffic. Either self-trucks can safely reach speed parity or there is much less space for them.

Another response mentions there are easy routes that could be self-trucked first. That would work.

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Dylan168072y ago

Does driving at 50mph decrease throughput compared to 65mph? By how much? Can we overcome that with a somewhat reduced following distance between self-driving trucks, since they can coordinate braking? (or at the very least they can respond to brake lights in front of them near-instantly)

When I think of "completely insufficient California roads" I think of traffic that's already going a lot slower than 50mph.

creerOP2y ago

Haha yeah.

But no, I was thinking of places like interstate 5 (the main north south freeway) which is often a struggle of trucks passing trucks and cars passing trucks and cars passing cars in a completely absurd 2 lanes of traffic in each direction. Nominally 70 / 55 speed limit but nobody drives at these speeds.

And this is one place where a few trucks driving slower than the other trucks would certainly cause extra mayhem.

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