Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads - eviltoast
Late this year, Aurora Innovation Inc. plans to start hauling freight on Interstate 45 between the Dallas and Houston areas with 20 driverless trucks.
  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
    31·
    8 months ago

    Hmm, they do have a union. It wouldn’t surprise me if they push to put some rules in place about requiring a driver in the cab for safety.

    Which wouldn’t even be a stretch, really. Heavy loads are dangerous, and I don’t think people have a lot of faith in autonomous vehicles right now.

    • Frozengyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      8 months ago

      Kinda like how planes are 95% automated these days, but we still keep two highly skilled and well paid pilots in board in case of emergency.

      • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Planes carry passengers though, not cargo… although you could technically fly a pilotless cargo plane… eh, better not, forget you read that.

    • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      I once lived in a town that if you want to be an uber driver you also legally needed to be a current taxi driver. Kinda completely missed the point. Though I did like how the taxi drivers couldn’t screw me.

      I hated that town though.