U.S. startup targets self-driving long-haul truck market

[gary]

Senior Editor, Philip E. Ross, reports (http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/otto-selfdriving-truck-company-wants-to-replace-teamsters) on the Institute of Electrical &
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum magazine web site that a
startup formed by veterans of the Google car project are targeting
self-driving long-haul trucks.





Article and video here -
http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/otto-selfdriving-truck-company-wants-to-replace-teamsters

[sn1987a]

Shouldn't be a problem. All those unemployed middle aged truck drivers have to do is go back to university for a 100k STEM degree, learn to code and bam!, new higher paying job at Google or Facebook. :P

[Kunama]

With all these advances in technology, I won't be surprised if someone decides to stretch parallel steel tracks from one side of the country to the other and move freight on that instead of running on second rate bitumen highway with passenger cars .......

[AstralTraveller]

Don't we already have our own forms of 'platooning' in Australia? One is called road trains. The other is called %$@!&^%$ idiots who tailgate.

[bojan]

Railway :thumbsup: