Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks.

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4 thoughts on “Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks.

  1. In 2020 the Indiana Department of Transportation began working with its Ohio counterpart and an engineering company to test partially automated semis on I-70 between Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio. It was reported that a human driver would be in the cab, able to take control if needed, but otherwise the truck would steer and control its speed by itself. Left unsaid was who or what would monitor that human.

    1. Any technology that disengages the human driver from taking over or dulls their reaction time should be banned. Same with the Tesla nonsense.

      That said, if they want to build two lanes with walls down the middle of existing interstates for the robot trucks? Sure, give it a try… provided they help pay a decent chunk of it.

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