Automated Trucking Hits the Road(cbsnews.com)
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Automated Trucking Hits the Road
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/driverless-trucks-could-disrupt-the-trucking-industry-as-soon-as-2021-60-minutes-2021-08-15/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/driverless-trucks-could-disrupt-the-trucking-industry-as-soon-as-2021-60-minutes-2021-08-15/
Trucks are heavy. This means that they have a lot of kinetic energy. This means that they can do a lot of destruction to anything that comes in their way.
Trucks are big. It is very easy for them to block many lanes at once.
We currently don't have any fully automated driving normal cars (And IMNSHO we will not have them in the next decades). The risks with automated trucks are a lot higher than the risk with automated cars, so it makes no sense to start with the trucks until we are certain that we have solved the problem with the cars.