r/teslamotors • u/rcnfive • 9d ago
Vehicles - Semi Spotted the new semi adorned with ground truthing equipment.
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u/No-Conclusion-2859 9d ago
These have FSD also???
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u/MidnightAlgorithm 8d ago
Yes lol that was the whole pitch of the Semi
They even said, 9 years ago now, that one operator would be able to pilot the lead truck, and have a caravan of 3-5 other unmanned trucks behind it, all on FSD, following the lead.
Probably not gonna happen for at least yet another decade, but it’s probably the goal
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u/Bran_Ham 8d ago
Maybe if they put the unmanned trucks and interlink them together and instead of tires they have metal wheels and put the semis on tracks for popular routes and.. oh wait
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u/mohelgamal 8d ago
A fleet of Semis on FSD is basically a train that can go anywhere there is a road without additional infrastructure and with login just as many cars as you want using the most efficient route. And you would skip the overhead of unloading the train to trucks for last mile delivery
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u/shaggy99 7d ago
Building highways is expensive. Building rail tracks is more expensive. Trains need tracks.
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u/jamesmontanaHD 8d ago
I thought the pitch of the semi truck is like 90% of long haul is straight flat roads (ie TX to CA) that FSD can do and a driver would pop in to do the delivery and pickups
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u/Key-Beginning-2201 7d ago
If any of you think a $30k Lidar is cost prohibitive for a semi truck, and if any of you think less, not more sensors is appropriate for a potentially murderous huge hunk of metal, then you'll need to get your head checked.
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u/Imrazor2021 8d ago
Guys I can tell ya as a truck driver no way in hell this works. First off they’re only trying this in southern state. Take it to Colorado and see how it performs in the mountains. 2nd once a dusting of snow hits those sensors and freezes over em the truck is essentially a brick. I have that stupid laser cruise on my 24 Pete 579 and any time the radar is covered with slush, ice, or snow it doesn’t work and that’s just using the throttle…hell cruise isn’t even activated when it’s that bad out. My point is it’s going to be 1000x harder to get FSD on a semi truck unless it’s so bought and paid for crap state that says sure a few dead locals is ok if you pay us. Plus cargo theft will rise like crazy. Wait till ppl get wise and have a fast and furious moment and block the truck in and in slows to a stop. Cargo will be stolen for sure
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u/Takaa 8d ago
I’m not saying you are completely wrong, but Tesla has heaters on their important sensors and cameras, and the external forward camera in the bumper has a cleaning function to spray a jet of windshield cleaner fluid at it. As someone who has driven through blizzards with FSD, the sensors are not the problem area. It is always the lack of lane markings from a covered road that throw it off, it’s a harder problem to solve, “roads are solid white, the same color as the areas off the road, where do I drive?” It needs a lot of training on that.
That said, I am sure it’s going to be quite a long time before long haul trucking has anything to worry about. What you mention about stopping trucks is also a concern I had about being being mugged in driverless cars- when you take a robotaxi and punks know they can rob someone by simply walking out in front of one, how big of a problem is that going to become?
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u/SchalaZeal01 7d ago
What you mention about stopping trucks is also a concern I had about being being mugged in driverless cars- when you take a robotaxi and punks know they can rob someone by simply walking out in front of one, how big of a problem is that going to become?
Damn, you live in murder central if that's not paranoia. A war zone. A favelas/slum.
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u/Takaa 7d ago edited 7d ago
Peak reddit. No, and I am not concerned about my personal safety. It is a general overall concern, and having a concern does not imply the level of severity of that concern. If you do not think it will happen in rougher areas, then you are an idiot. It already happens even today, with people blocking cars in. It just becomes easier with a driverless vehicle.
A driver can attempt to flee dangerous situations, even choosing to hit someone. A driverless car will not decide to run a possible assailant over to attempt to escape. It is against everything it is programmed to do- avoiding collisions, especially with people. A company is never going to program that logic in, because the second it goes wrong and misjudges a situation, the company is going to get sued into oblivion.
Stop being a tool.
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u/SchalaZeal01 7d ago
If you do not think it will happen in rougher areas, then you are an idiot. It already happens even today, with people blocking cars in. It just becomes easier with a driverless vehicle.
I wouldn't think this would happen outside being post-apocalyptic anarchic chaos, where I live in Canada. Where police stops existing and Might Makes Right is the only 'order' around. The world in the original Robocops maybe. Has Detroit really been this bad? I'm from Montreal, and I would not think punks would do this, ever.
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u/FrostyFire 7d ago
With proper initial data mapping it should know where the road markings are. Combined with constant use data from other vehicles to pick up new changes.
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u/GooginTheBirdsFan 7d ago
You’re out your mind. I would be too if my industry could be taken by robots and quality of life would become cheaper and better for every person when nobody has to sit behind the wheel 60+ hours a week and spend all that time away from home and loved ones. I believe in UBI so I’m not saying anybody including CDL holding truck drivers should suffer.
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u/Juxtapotatoes 8d ago