As the owner of a 2023 Tacoma I get surveys from Toyota. The last one concerned hands free driving and hitchless towing.
Hitchless Towing
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Barf, that marketing guy with every hair perfectly straight up is too slick. How about you get rid of the computers and just drive your fucking car.
I'm really surprised this gets by the lawyers. It seems to me the ways this could all go wrong are endless. One example. The mook trying to pass everyone and realizes he's at his off-ramp and cuts in between you and the car you are "towing". Does that break the connection? And then what happens to the car being "towed"?
Like the slick guy said, they are so good they coming up with answers to questions nobody has even asked yet.
Locomation was working on the concept of a convoy with a human driver and AV following for the trucking industry. They went under this year, but I guess they will license out the IP they developed or move to another startup or OEM. Might be what toyota has cooking.
I can't think of when this would be useful. The thing that comes to mind is flat towing a little car behind an RV, but then you are putting gas (or have to charge) that little car.
Another use case might be "towing" a powered trailer behind a normal car full of stuff, but then that powered trailer has to have a big engine to manage what its towing, and it a very slippy slope to come with the next idea to make the hitchless trailer less expensive. Put a hitch on it and tow it with another car and save on buying two vehicles. And we are back to where we started....
Another use case might be "towing" a powered trailer behind a normal car full of stuff, but then that powered trailer has to have a big engine to manage what its towing, and it a very slippy slope to come with the next idea to make the hitchless trailer less expensive. Put a hitch on it and tow it with another car and save on buying two vehicles. And we are back to where we started....
Some dipshit submitted the idea through a faceless portal called "hype".
Corporate Culture is Shit.
Now please pardon me while I submit my invoicing to my client through Textura, review my submittals through Procore, check a detail on Plangrid, review as-builts on Egnyte, and shit my pants in RazzleDazzle.
Henry Ford would not approve.
Corporate Culture is Shit.
Now please pardon me while I submit my invoicing to my client through Textura, review my submittals through Procore, check a detail on Plangrid, review as-builts on Egnyte, and shit my pants in RazzleDazzle.
Henry Ford would not approve.