https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/07/self-driving-truck-startup-kodiak-robotics-raises-40-million/

In Don Burnette and Paz Eshel’s view, trucking is the killer app for self-driving technology.

It’s what led Burnette to leave the Google self-driving project and co-found Otto in early 2016, along with Anthony Levandowski, Lior Ron, and Claire Delaunay.