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Wait until it veers under a tractor-trailer and kills you.

Or drives right into a freight train at a grade crossing.

THESE HAVE ALREADY HAPPENED - with self-driving programs.
 
Nothing special, just something to watch if interested.

 

The Robot Ships of Route 90​

NEW IBERIA, Louisiana – Surrounded by rows of sugar cane fields on Bayou Teche, generations of shipbuilders are wrenching on the U.S. Navy’s latest push toward a future drone fleet.

Work boat builders and repair facilities dot U.S. Route 90 in southern Louisiana, where the boom and bust of the oil and gas industry looms over yards small and large. It’s along this road where several shipyards are vying for a chance to build unmanned ships for the world’s most powerful navy.

At Breaux Brothers Enterprises outside of Lafayette, La., four aluminum Romulus vessels are currently under construction for a collaboration agreement between the yard and HII, the United States’ largest shipbuilder.

Breaux Brothers has built high-speed vessels for the petroleum industry since the 1940s, when Brannon Breaux’s grandfather started building aluminum crew boats in Iberia Parish.

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John Deere Teases Autonomous Dump Truck: One Truck, Two Modes

Oct 9, 2026 #JohnDeere #AutonomousEquipment #AutonomousHaulage
John Deere is developing an autonomous haulage solution for articulated dump trucks that it says offers autonomy when you need it, and manual operation when you don’t.
Shown on Deere’s 460 P-Tier articulated dump truck at ConExpo 2026, the autonomous haulage kit is designed to bolt onto an existing truck cab. This approach, Senior Product Manager David Veasy says, helps preserve the resale value of the machine while allowing contractors to use autonomous capabilities when appropriate.
Read more below the vid on youtube.


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Casey Jones said:
People are gonna die from this.
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Even with people driving, people are gonna die.

Casey Jones said:
Wait until it veers under a tractor-trailer and kills you.

Or drives right into a freight train at a grade crossing.

THESE HAVE ALREADY HAPPENED - with self-driving programs.
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Yes, but the dif is that with a computer, the code can be fixed so it doesn't happen again.

With human drivers, the same bad mistakes keep being made over and over again. There's no way to correct the human programming all at once.

With a computer, if a mistake becomes apparent, corrected code can be uploaded to all vehicles that fix the problem.

With people, each idiot has to separately learn the lesson the hard way.

Take the 11'8" bridge. With computers, only one truck would have ever hit it. Once it did, the code is corrected and no other tall vehicle would go that way.

With human drivers, we get a non-stop highlight reel of idiots crashing into the bridge for our amusement.


I encounter Waymo's quite often and feel safer with one of those behind me than I do with the average human driver.

Half the people out there are too stupid to have a driver's license, IMHO.
 
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