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