Robot trucks on I45 this year, more coming

What could go wrong

I am 100% behind self driving but seems like you could pick a better spot to try this.

I feel like this will be disastrous but I also realize most humans absolutely suck at driving anyway

Seems like we would perfect autonomous driving with personal vehicles before we let big rigs loose. But maybe I am being unreasonable.

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Interstate 45 between Dallas and Houston

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Isn't that the deadliest stretch of road in all of America. Great place to test these out in

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Robot trucks on I45 this year, more coming

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Gonna go full max overdrive

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What could go wrong

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At least a computer doesn't need meth to "manage fatigue".

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Go ahead and put me down for this being much safer than human drivers.

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While I have my reservations, I 100% agree. Perhaps driving in BR has me jaded…but I’ve lost a lot of hope in humanity recently.

Everyone seems to not give a frick and do what they please when they please. That coupled with distractions as well as being actual terrible drivers and no wonder we have the highest insurance premiums. (Although I don’t think we are terribly different than anywhere else)

Today sitting at a red light, a guy was in the far left lane on Hennessy at the light at Essen (leaving the hospital) he messed up and wanted to cross over and go straight onto Summa. The light turns green and he proceeds to sit and hold up everyone behind him until it turned yellow and he could proceed and cut across 2 lanes once traffic stopped turning….just infuriating

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That coupled with distractions as well as being actual terrible drivers and no wonder we have the highest insurance premiums. (Although I don’t think we are terribly different than anywhere else)

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You’re almost there. Our premiums aren’t higher because people drive worse or get in more accidents compared to other states. Our premiums are higher because damage awards for similar injuries/treatment are far higher in Louisiana than most other states. It’s a game where the plaintiff attorneys are sending their clients for enough treatment to exhaust whatever policy limits are applicable, but not for too much treatment that they waste too much money paying the doctors and reducing the plaintiff’s payout.

The doctors are also in on it. As long as they give an opinion that all of their treatment was necessitated by the accident, regardless of how minor the collision or for how long their patient complained of pain, they’ll get their bill paid out of the settlement.

Since it’s possible for a plaintiff to get a judgment for more than the defendant’s policy limits, if an insurance company doesn’t settle and protect their insured, the insurance company will then get sued by their insured to cover the excess judgment.

Those billboards don’t just materialize out of nowhere. They come from six-figure monthly advertising budgets paid for with your premiums.

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game where the plaintiff attorneys are sending their clients for enough treatment to exhaust whatever policy limits are applicable, but not for too much treatment that they waste too much money paying the doctors and reducing the plaintiff’s payout.

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100% accurate. Pieces of shite have gotten me twice for Policy Limit settlements. I wanted to fight both but my own insurance company and my personal lawyer advised me to let them pay or face out of pocket payments.