Truck
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
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How I Built This
6 statements about Truck, every show
Cohen: Highway stops for confused autonomous trucks are highly dangerous
“When, in San Francisco, when a passenger car stops, you know, people go around and they honk, they call they call annoyed their local politicians, whatever, but mostly it's a safe situation. You don't have that advantage on a highway. So, so, so stopping a tru…”
Sofman: Excavators take 4–5 years to master due to seven degrees of freedom
“So the interesting thing is for humans, like excavators are one of the toughest machines. That's why it's like very high dimensional. There's like seven degrees of freedom and like, you know, you like all these subtle controls on the bucket, the body, the trea…”
Friedmann: Shipping CO2 costs ~$18/ton by truck versus ~$2/ton by pipeline
“So it costs something like 18 bucks a ton or something like that to ship things by truck, where it might cost two bucks a ton to ship it by pipeline, right?”
Lamb: Kona Ice sold 276 trucks in 2023, yielding $5M-$7M in royalties
“This year we sold 276 trucks, basically. So that's the lion's share of the revenues that come into the, but we're at the point now you're making, you know, I don't know, five, six, seven million in royalty”
Autonomous trucks at highway speeds require over 400 meters of sensor range
“If you're driving a truck down the freeway at 65 miles an hour, you have to be looking out 404 hundred plus meters to see what's happening because there's so much momentum and inertia with that, that thing.”
Creel: Rail freight historically lost market share to trucks due to unreliability
“So that agility and flexibility, coupled with historically, railways have not always been the most reliable when it comes to a schedule, providing a What I call a truck-like reliable service. I think that has led to the demise of the freight that's hauled by r…”