Will self-driving trucks ever be safe enough?
https://www.techradar.com/news/will-self-driving-trucks-ever-be-safe-enough
Long, tedious highway journeys seem an ideal fit for automation, but while self-driving cars are rolling out onto our streets, autonomous trucks have stalled.
“We believe delivering on self-driving for passenger applications first, and then bringing it to freight applications down the line, is the best path forward,” Eric Meyhofer, head of Uber Advanced Technologies Group, told employees in an internal memo last month when the company shuttered its autonomous truck division.
