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Every vehicle on the road is "subject to lawsuits".
Yes but there is reason the lawyer is asking you on TV if you have been in an accident with a truck, those policies are very high and/or deep pockets.
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The pros tend to do things, like limiting speed, that minimize the chances of accidents.
I'd be one of them because I owned a small trucking company. Insurance was not cheap and you needed a multi million dollar policy because if you were in accident the lawyers were coming after you guaranteed your fault or not. Something like speeding is automatically going to make it your fault whether it was the cause or not.
The safest speed to drive is whatever traffic is flowing at and what conditions permit.
Every single thing you buy in a store got there on a truck, and someone had to pay the truck driver for the time it took him to bring it there. How much more is everything - and yeah, I mean just about everything - we buy going to cost if retailers have to pay truck drivers 15% to 20% more for the time it takes to deliver their loads?
I wouldn't mind a law that made truckers stay in the slow lane. I get tired of being behind trucks going less than the speed limit, but 1 truck can do 2 mph more than the other and stall traffic behind them, as the slightly faster truck tries to pass on a friggen hill.
Yeah, trust me... this isn't happening to any practical extent in our lifetime.
Our technology is not to the level where we can automate such.
Now stupid politicians may try to force such, but they will catch hell form it.
I have worked at all levels of computer technology for decades and I can tell you I wouldn't trust our level of technology to such responsibility even if I was paid to. Hell no... Hell no.
In our lifetime? We won't see self-driving vehicles in the next 30 or 40 years? If you said that about "cold fusion" I'd understand, but we're already moving toward semi-automation. I think you're under-estimating the changes that will come over a series of decades. But I suppose we'll see. A whole lot of people I know, especially teens and 20s, are READY for self-driving cars. The tide seems to be turning. And how much do you trust some 22 year old more interested in peering at a handheld computer than watching other cars?
Because of variances in tire wear, etc, no speed limiting system can effectively hold a vehicle to exactly 68 mph. The result would be a bunch of vehicles who's maximum speeds are close, but not exactly the same.
It would be great being stuck behind a truck going 68.0 mph at full throttle which takes 3 counties to pass another truck which is going 67.9.
It doesn't matter- it's just another law that won't be enforced. How often do we see trucks pulled over by police- very rarely.
I agree it's pointless to make laws that no one's going to enforce anyway. But this would be a governer on the car or truck that would keep it from going faster than 68.
Don't you think driving 80 MPH on any public road is more stupid?
You haven't been on I-10 in New Orleans. 80 is fine if the road can handle it.
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