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Originally Posted by Buehler445
Nah. Docks can be equipped with hardware.
The GPS on my tractor can operate with sub inch accuracy. I’m sure the dock is the easy part.
The hard part is one of 3 things:
1. Unknown/unpredictable weather/visability/static/whatever else affects their sensors conditions.
2. Unpredictable/irrational behaviors of other drivers/pedestrians.
3. Hardware reliability.
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This. Or, these. Whatever. I'm 100% confident that they can program a truck/car to maneuver at low speeds with extreme precision that would put almost any trucker to shame. But it's when it's travelling 70+ mph in winter somewhere in the mountains, at night, in a blizzard. or even if it's a nice day weatherwise, but there's black ice on the highway.
bottom line, sometime within the first 5 years, there's going to be a massive accident involving one or more of these things and a lot of people are going to die. god forbid the thing explodes during the pileup, the body count could get really gruesome.