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Schubalts posted:How would you even see the road in that thing? Where we are going, we don't need to see roads.
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Vegetable posted:You can test whatever you want. But I don’t get the point of trying to catch generative AI technologies in a gotcha. It’s known to everyone that they’re fallible in unexpected ways. They will continue to make mistakes even in the age of AGI. They’re still plenty good. It demonstrably is not known, see all the cases where educated people have relied on it and gotten fucken rekt.
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Schubalts posted:How would you even see the road in that thing? Run over a child, you can get a brief assessment of the road when they go under the rear tires and you have a momentary downward survey angle. Per the followup question "im sorry, how do you run over a child" the answer is: with extraordinary ease as these machines are so aggressive with their ego-stoking dimensions that they have criminally negligent driver sight lines and dead zones, exceeding (as perfectly random, sensible market alternative examples) peterbilt tractor trailer semis and abrams tanks 
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Staluigi posted:Run over a child, you can get a brief assessment of the road when they go under the rear tires and you have a momentary downward survey angle. The SUVs/pick-ups are bad enough, but they're at least partly explained by American consumers being idiots. But why on earth are commercial trucks built like that? Surely they're the easiest possible to keep to more sensible designs, no trucker is going to give a poo poo what his company truck looks like? In Europe all our similar sized/capability trucks have perfectly flat faces and it seems a very obvious better state of affairs: 
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Staluigi posted:now guess what differences might exist between the towing capacity of these two vehicles and which one got more GCVWR One of those trucks listed GCVWR is from before SAE J2807, they are not apples-to-apples comparisons
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Blut posted:The SUVs/pick-ups are bad enough, but they're at least partly explained by American consumers being idiots. But why on earth are commercial trucks built like that? Surely they're the easiest possible to keep to more sensible designs, no trucker is going to give a poo poo what his company truck looks like? Conventional (as in not cab-over) configuration is far easier to work on and more comfortable to drive (longer wheel-base and also driver position being positioned between the axels). Also less likely to get whacked by animals (in Australia there is a big huge bull bar to help with that too).
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Exactly. Trying to tackle a complex beast like artificial intelligence when there’s serious debate going on about whether it’s ok or not for vehicles to get so big they are a danger to everyone around them for (almost) nothing but cosmetic reasons. We haven’t got a chance.
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Why don't they make the truck cabin look like this
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Nenonen posted:Why don't they make the truck cabin look like this They did  
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mobby_6kl posted:They did How did this wonder of engineering and design never catch on!!!
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Blut posted:The SUVs/pick-ups are bad enough, but they're at least partly explained by American consumers being idiots. But why on earth are commercial trucks built like that? Surely they're the easiest possible to keep to more sensible designs, no trucker is going to give a poo poo what his company truck looks like? The talking point I have gotten on American commercial trucks having their engines out in front is that they need the cab space for a place to sleep since they are driving longer distances. I'm not entirely convinced about this. I can trace a 4500km route from Tallinn, Estonia down to Gibraltar. That's like going from Orlando to San Francisco. But that's the biggest reason given nonetheless.
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dr_rat posted:Oh god the sad fat fish truck, it's beautiful.  Rocko Bonaparte posted:The talking point I have gotten on American commercial trucks having their engines out in front is that they need the cab space for a place to sleep since they are driving longer distances. I'm not entirely convinced about this. I can trace a 4500km route from Tallinn, Estonia down to Gibraltar. That's like going from Orlando to San Francisco. But that's the biggest reason given nonetheless. The normal looking ones like in that photo probably have a small bed behind the seats like this:  You could probably just make the cab longer to have more space but that would cut into trailer space so I don't there are (m)any of those
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mobby_6kl posted:They did Now add the twin .50 cals
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Nenonen posted:Now add the twin .50 cals 
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I thought they banned porn from this site a long time ago
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:The talking point I have gotten on American commercial trucks having their engines out in front is that they need the cab space for a place to sleep since they are driving longer distances. I'm not entirely convinced about this. I can trace a 4500km route from Tallinn, Estonia down to Gibraltar. That's like going from Orlando to San Francisco. But that's the biggest reason given nonetheless. Yeah, but how often are truck drivers actually going from Estonia to Gibraltar? Shipping by boat is often cheaper and more efficient than shipping by land, so freight often starts at the nearest port and gets trucked inland. There's not a whole lot of places in Europe that are 2000km from the nearest major port, but there's a big chunk of the Western US that's just nowhere near the ocean or even major rivers. And a lot of that is just driving over big empty highways with basically nothing in sight. There's also other differences due to regional laws and practices, such as the fact that American truck drivers are allowed to drive for more hours in a single day than Europeans can.
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American truck drivers are often owner/operators meaning any hotel rooms and the such will come out of their own pockets and hurt their already poor profits.
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socialsecurity posted:American truck drivers are often owner/operators
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I think yall are making the same point, the trucking company shift to contractors means that "owner/operators" often have to pay off loans to their (real) employer
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cat botherer posted:not anymore lol Ha ok add "stuck in a predatory lease" onto that list.
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mobby_6kl posted:They did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2-xInUb7nA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asYhAU_mzxw
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Pretty much everything from down continent that gets to Sweden gets trucked for a couple of thousand kilometers to get anywhere useful.
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Cabal Ties posted:Exactly. Trying to tackle a complex beast like artificial intelligence when there’s serious debate going on about whether it’s ok or not for vehicles to get so big they are a danger to everyone around them for (almost) nothing but cosmetic reasons. quote:In a thought experiment, Tyndall calculated what would happen if vehicle hood heights were limited by regulation to 49.2 inches (1.25 m) or less. "Across the 2,126 pedestrians killed by high-front-ended vehicles (1.25 m), I estimate 509 lives would be saved annually by adopting a 1.25-m front-end limit. The lives saved equal 7% of annual pedestrian deaths. Reducing the limit to 1.2 m would spare an estimated 757 pedestrian lives per year, and further reducing the cap to 1.1 m would spare an estimated 1,350 pedestrian lives per year," he writes. I don’t have great hopes that our supposed leaders will do that when they are unwilling to lift a finger to reduce the ongoing death rate of COVID‑19 by a single percent, for a similar saving of lives.
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Threadkiller Dog posted:Pretty much everything from down continent that gets to Sweden gets trucked for a couple of thousand kilometers to get anywhere useful. Sweden is only ~1500 km from tip to tip (and most people live in the south) so... to Finland? 
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Main Paineframe posted:Yeah, but how often are truck drivers actually going from Estonia to Gibraltar? Shipping by boat is often cheaper and more efficient than shipping by land, so freight often starts at the nearest port and gets trucked inland. There's not a whole lot of places in Europe that are 2000km from the nearest major port, but there's a big chunk of the Western US that's just nowhere near the ocean or even major rivers. And a lot of that is just driving over big empty highways with basically nothing in sight. I'm not really versed in trucking for anywhere, but I did skim some anecdotes about trips from Finland to Spain, or from Romania to Spain. Lots of Spain, for some reason. I was wondering that too given the peninsula.
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Working at a Finnish dairy factory for summer work I learned that one time a Greek truck driver had showed at their door at which point he had been told that his company had mixed dates somewhow, the cheese order he had come to fetch wasn't supposed to be ready until two weeks later. Well. His company wasn't going to pay a roundtrip to come back for it so he spent the next weeks at the factory parking lot sleeping the nights in his truck.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjO0Ddorma8 goes through some of the differences fairly well - it's a neat, short watch!
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Nenonen posted:Sweden is only ~1500 km from tip to tip (and most people live in the south) so... to Finland? Well the Haparanda Systembolaget needs to get properly stocked for you guys - we aim to please. Threadkiller Dog fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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Main Paineframe posted:Yeah, but how often are truck drivers actually going from Estonia to Gibraltar? Shipping by boat is often cheaper and more efficient than shipping by land, so freight often starts at the nearest port and gets trucked inland. There's not a whole lot of places in Europe that are 2000km from the nearest major port, but there's a big chunk of the Western US that's just nowhere near the ocean or even major rivers. And a lot of that is just driving over big empty highways with basically nothing in sight. All I can tell you is one of the companies I work for operates massive trucks throughout Europe from the uk and there are all sorts of rules and regs truck drivers have to work by here. What you refer to as practices I generally refer to as worker rights, whether you agree with them or not. Not even all the drivers agree to all of them. We haven’t solved the problem of trucks being a huge killer on the roads but why would you not want to take steps to ensure this was priority? This is what I mean. It’s a no brainer, even if we don’t draw a distinction between an 18 ton lorry doing 2000km and a posers gmc truck grill. Plenty of reasons like that.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:I'm not really versed in trucking for anywhere, but I did skim some anecdotes about trips from Finland to Spain, or from Romania to Spain. Lots of Spain, for some reason. I was wondering that too given the peninsula. Bilbao is a port city, so they'll probably be carrying cross-Atlantic container freight heading to & from northern Europe; rail freight in Spain is complicated by the different track gauge, so any cargo would need transhipment anyway ... may as well put it on a truck all the way, and avoid any handling charges.
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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mobby_6kl posted:Google has a new AI video generator
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Why the hell are you reading LinkedIn posts
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I don’t but I’m on that garbage all the time applying for jobs so I wind up seeing them by accident
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feedmyleg posted:Why the hell are you reading LinkedIn posts
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Sagacity posted:Where else would you find life coaches and thought leaders sharing their expertise? Medium?! X, the blaze your glory app.
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Cabal Ties posted:All I can tell you is one of the companies I work for operates massive trucks throughout Europe from the uk and there are all sorts of rules and regs truck drivers have to work by here. and if you were to priortise the truck driver's life and well being, well you would ban cab over trucks as the first step.
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Lamquin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjO0Ddorma8 goes through some of the differences fairly well - it's a neat, short watch! American and Euro Truck Simulator are frequently on sale for $5 if you want to experience the difference too!
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nachos posted:American and Euro Truck Simulator are frequently on sale for $5 if you want to experience the difference too! Do the new versions of Euro truck accurately simulate the Dover queues since Brexit?
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