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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: silverbullet on August 16, 2018, 06:18:27 pm

Title: Platooning
Post by: silverbullet on August 16, 2018, 06:18:27 pm: It's happening faster than you think:

https://www.iru.org/resources/newsroom/man-connects-trucks (https://www.iru.org/resources/newsroom/man-connects-trucks)
Title: Re: Platooning
Post by: john m on August 16, 2018, 08:14:10 pm: UBER are to drop their development it autonomous vehicles .Seems like they are to focus on brand building cur down on their expences .If they have the customer base then the autonomous vehicle owners will come to them .Trying tocut their losses on paper before their IPO .Learning from Teslar ,Amazon if you want to make money selling stock you only need to sell the prospect of making money .Apple shares are priced at 158 times their annual earnings based of future earnings .Apple might have a strong trading position now just like ford had in the 1920s .The tech bubble will burst just like the dot com
Title: Re: Platooning
Post by: silverbullet on August 16, 2018, 08:40:28 pm: https://www.volvogroup.com/en-en/news/2018/feb/truck-platooning-on-european-roads.html (https://www.volvogroup.com/en-en/news/2018/feb/truck-platooning-on-european-roads.html)
Title: Re: Platooning
Post by: john m on August 16, 2018, 09:00:12 pm: 1970 =Convoy ..2020=Platooning 1970 Platooning meant American Soldiers shooting Gooks and burning villages in Asia .
Title: Re: Platooning
Post by: Vikkiz on August 16, 2018, 09:18:34 pm: These still require a driver at the wheels. Why not just do a road train like in Australia?? 4 or 5 trailers attached to a truck. Or bigger trailers inside of the standard 40ft ones we have, make bigger ones like they have in America
Title: Re: Platooning
Post by: silverbullet on August 16, 2018, 11:48:59 pm: They will eliminate the need for drivers eventually.
Title: Re: Platooning
Post by: The Liffey Lip on August 17, 2018, 12:20:46 pm: Convoy...a town near Letterkenny.....inhabited mainly by non-Catholics.
Title: Re: Platooning
Post by: The Liffey Lip on August 17, 2018, 04:09:28 pm: Met Gerry, God bless him, up there at a quare-fest...he didn't know and I didn't tell him etc etc.