Motoring to be made 'safer' in 10 years with Driverless Lorries

by Beaulieu | August 20, 2009 at 11:09 am

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"The idea of a 42-ton lorry with no one at the wheel looming in your rearview mirror is pretty terrifying.

But we had all better get used to it because driverless juggernauts could be on Britain's motorways within ten years, experts predicted yesterday.

And the trucks look like being the forerunners of a robot revolution".

This is an interesting step towards road safety: Get rid of the driver.

It removes regular 'motorist dangers' such as speeding and talking on a phone whilst driving. It will even get rid of motorist rubbish like crisp packets, plastic sandwich wrappers, Red Bull cans, fag packets, crisp packets and tatty porn mags that adorn our motorways, and creep into the countryside. Yes, this idea it may even clean the place up.

The Docklands Light Railway works well but that's completely different. Just how such a robotic lorry can deal with things like poor weather conditions such as fog and snow. What would happen if a deer ran across the motorway?

Many other points:

- When the lorry arrives at it's destination, just who is going to have to drop off the goods?

- If there is an accident, there would be no driver to be a witness and if it involved two driverless vehicles, how can there be a court case with no drivers?

- Will the asylum seekers in France make a beeline for these driverless lorries and think their luck is in?