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

    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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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.