Advanced Technology On Truck Driving

On December 18th, 2017, the Trump administration implemented new safety regulations that require commercial truck drivers to use electronic logging devices. And these are some of the current trucking-related headlines “Trucking is right now … experiencing a severe crisis”. “Trucking Industry Struggles with Growing Driver Shortage”. You might think to yourself: “I haven’t noticed it”.

Electronic log books will be mandatory for all commercial trucking vehicles. Drivers will no longer be required to complete paper logs. The reason for the electronic log books is help regulate federal hours of service. When you are running paper logs drivers have been known to run dual log books to beat the system and not have to follow the hours of service. When a driver is on the road to long they take a huge safety risk of hurting themselves and the other vehicles around them. Trucks will have ELDs installed on them to allowing the actual minutes of drive time to be recorded vs and wrote log books that are in 15 minute increments. The electronic logging device will have to be able to show 7 previous days and your current operating day. Driver vehicle inspection

A self driving truck is a vehicle that is controlled by a built in system that is monitored by someone. Self driving trucks do not have a person behind the wheel but it does have a company or a specific person monitoring it. These new vehicles are being made because workers and businesses are trying to see if a computer can drive safer than a human. It is a possibility that self driving trucks will

    Google's self driving cars have driven almost a million miles. People are suggesting that their next invention will be self driving diesels. Then the fear is that the response system will not be up to par and vehicle accidents will increase ten fold. Along with that, jobs will be put in jeopardy. Taxi drivers will be slowly laid off, and truck drivers will be plucked

Cars are something that almost every person has or will use in their everyday life or need to use their car to get to and from work or school everyday. Well in this paper you will learn about what technology has done to change the Automotive Industry as well as your everyday life. This paper will be focusing on the Technologies inside of the car, along with the Technologies that keep you safe and also a little bit about Self-Driving Cars. So fasten your seatbelts while you are reading this paper.

I plan to start truck driving after high school. Why I would choose this career is because I can see all of the United States and meet new people and I’ve always liked tractor and trailers. I just love how I can be by myself all day long with no one bother me while I drive down the road. I can be my own boss in the cab of the truck and I can sleep whenever I want to. The only bad thing driving truck is that you have a higher rollover and accident.

Self-driving cars will soon be in their rearview mirrors. I do believe Americans are ready for cars that can drive themselves?, and it be safe for “ai’s” on the road instead of normal human drivers?, and this will be beneficial to traffic, crashes, and time? With General Motors vehicle-to-vehicle, or V2V, communications technology in some of its upcoming Cadillac models, it will definitely reduce the many crashes we have each year, because of it's ability to brake and avoid hitting other cars. Who knows when these new “self-driving-cars” will be on the road, or weather they'll help make the road a safer place, but with technology advancing every day let's just say it might come sooner than we

Have you ever been extremely late for school or your occupations and wish you could just get ready in the car? Automotive cars are planned to come out sometime in the near future of the year 2020. I know this new technological advancement seems scary, but with the ways it will benefit us remarkable. Self-driving cars would impact our advanced society in many positive ways because the streets would become less congested, the innovations for cars have worked before, and the amount of deaths would be lessened.

“Self-Driving Trucks May Be Closer Than They Appear” article was written by New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty. The article basis was about the recent invention of the self driving car also known as the Tesla and how self driving trucks were starting to make an appearance in the self driving car industry because of the benefits it would have. Quoted in the article, “Trucking is a $700 billion industry that touches every corner of the economy. Trucks haul natural resources from mines to forests.” (Dougherty) Many more reasons are stated in the article about the vast use of trucks for transportation in the article. It also states the worldwide benefit of having self-driving trucks in the economy.

Most people believe that these self-driving cars are going to make our roads much safer than they are with human drivers. According to an article titled “Road Crash Statistics” by the Association for Safe International Road Travel, “nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 a day.” They also claim that road crashes is the ninth leading cause of death. Obviously automobiles are dangerous, but they are also very effective for transportation. According to Statista there were over 7 million cars sold to U.S. customers in 2014. Even though automobiles have caused so many deaths, most people really need them.

The self driven cars will be able to drive up to 4 to 6 people in one car and that will help reduce traffic on the streets and traffic. It will be very beneficial because there will be less accidents, less pollution and less crowding on the streets. When self driven cars become a thing, the roads will have changed to adjust them for self driving cars. With the adjusted roads, self driven cars will be able to drive in any type of weather, any type of road/highway. Self driven cars will be able to promote car pooling more and although there might be some people that are not into the whole letting a car drive them to a certain place, it will hopefully promote other people to learn how to carpool to help overcrowding in the streets. Overcrowding has caused many disadvantages when it comes to driving in the streets, it causes accidents and it also makes others late for certain events such as work, school, sports, emergencies. With self driven cars it can help reduce overcrowding by having car pooling with coworkers or sports teams to avoid overcrowding and help to get to destination on

It has been reported that Truckers with Electronic Logging Device(ELDs) have been overly fatigued. Electronic Logging Devices do not let Truckers drive the last few miles to home it makes them stop the truck and rest, but the dispatcher says otherwise. Electronic Logging Devices are going to be put into place so Truckers do not have to deal with loose papers. There should be more than one way to log driving hours. Today drivers can use paper logs. The government wants to go to just the electronic logs to make it easier for larger fleets.

First, self driving cars help the commute of people. The author states, “[Allow] Americans to live where they want, without worrying about their commute to work.” Like the article said an autonomous car would help families to be able to chose to live a lifestyle outside of a city and not have to worry about commute to a city for work or other activities. The article then states, “With autonomous cars, driving to work will be a breeze. Instead of being an exhausting trek, it will feel more like sitting at home on the couch watching a favorite television show.” This would make traveling to work not just easy, but it would also make it more enjoyable.

Since the beginning of self-driving cars which first began in 1925 with the creation of the Houdina Radio Control; a car operated by two cars, a transmitter, and an antenna, to now - the futuristic dream of these autonomous cars have transformed into the reality of cars we see now. These cars are nothing short of the new technology advances that have occurred over the past decade. However, with these advances many question whether or not these cars are ready to be sold, due to the fatal accident that occurred May 2016 involving the autonomous Tesla and a white truck. Due to the Tesla not being able to detect the white tractor because of technological issues, the tesla failed to stop, and since the driver was not prepared to steer, it lead to the fatal collision eventually leading to the death of the tesla owner. With the increase of these cars on the road, from companies like BMW, Daimler, Ford, Apple, Uber, and Google, this poses a serious threat to not only the people operating this autonomous vehicle but also to the surrounding drivers. I believe that autonomous cars should not be put on the road, and that these cars are not beneficial to the population.

Highway Administration, the average American driver drives almost 40 miles every day (FHA, 2011). Given how heavily vehicles are used today, especially in the United States, their replacement with autonomous vehicles could easily have far-reaching implications.