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