| Well as we have always said if you want to | | | | freight costs, more trucks on the road and |
| change the world you take something from one | | | | therefore more in experienced new drivers, more |
| industry and apply it to another. History has | | | | congestion, more pollution and that means more |
| shown this, for instance many of Leonardo | | | | accidents not less. Oh well, leave it to the |
| DaVinci and his drawings and the Bicycle | | | | regulators to screw up something else. Lockheed |
| Mechanics Wright brothers. Well in that same | | | | has some good ideas for the project and we |
| tradition the Makers of Aircraft Jet Simulators, | | | | stand to learn alot about human behavior, accident |
| Lockheed are now producing a prototype Truck | | | | psychology and survivability of Murphy-ism. |
| training simulator. | | | | Combine this with a new state of awareness in |
| [ | | | | transportation with regards to International |
| You can buy video games simulators in trucking | | | | Terrorism; your new drivers will be your last and |
| just like the aviation ones by Microsoft already, | | | | permanent line of defense. |
| sometimes art really does influence reality, 3D | | | | Just think if Todd Beemer would have had all the |
| Virtual reality that is | | | | training given to the Delta Force or Navy Seal |
| Why? Well because there are certain things you | | | | Team Six prior to the hi-jacking. Probably a |
| will not wish to do in a truck during training, which | | | | different result. Also realize that with safer trucks |
| will help a new driver learn experiences. For | | | | and systems which measure tire pressure, instant |
| instance driving off the road accidentally and then | | | | weather reporting, GPS, etc, these new trucks or |
| doing a gentle slow down, ride it out recovery | | | | a new driver could possibly drive for years |
| rather than jerking the wheel and finding your self | | | | without a single incident and each mile with no |
| jack knifed along with 40,000 -60,000 pounds of | | | | incident makes them a little less attentive and |
| payload. This project is a joint venture with GE. | | | | gives them a false sense of security, when the |
| [ | | | | crap hits the fan they will have never experienced |
| Obviously you do not want to purposely blow out | | | | anything like that and might end up upside down in |
| a front right tire in an snow storm with black ice | | | | the ditch and we have seen enough of those in |
| on the road while passing a two lane narrow | | | | our travels, but high winds, blow-outs, boredom, |
| bridge with construction vehicles parked there | | | | unsafe four wheelers, heavy traffic and road |
| over night. Which could easily happen on | | | | conditions, equipment failures can occur. And as |
| Pennsylvania's Toll Ways in the winter. The goal | | | | Lockheed will tell you after testing all those |
| being total control, pre-planning, calm cool and | | | | X-Planes, "Events Occur" so then do them in a |
| collected response, not panic, which could lead to | | | | simulator first. I can recall my dad flew the DC-10 |
| death, injury and closing of a major arterial piece | | | | O'Hare Accident safely in a simulator after the |
| of infrastructure. Of course these simulators are | | | | controls were put into the simulator exactly as |
| not cheap, but it could save more lives than the | | | | those during that fatal flight. Imagine the positive |
| bogus newly enacted ridiculous hours of operation | | | | aspects of this. |
| rules by the DOT which will actually lead to higher | | | | |