A fleet of trucks just drove themselves across Europe

Awesome. Trucks and taxis are a very promising target for self driving vehicles for these reasons:

24h availability. No need to stop the truck 8+ hours a day for the driver to sleep/eat. Reduced fuel comsumption as the article states. * Frees humans to work on more productive affairs.

Just awesome

Previously we had western European truckers suffering big time from the competition of lower paid eastern European truckers.

Now with this driverless technology both eastern and western drivers will have no job at all.

AFAIK there are no replacement jobs to offer them and on top of that there are more than one million refugees that came in Europe last year that will be available on the job market.

Honestly I think the EU have no long term vision at all. They just get pushed by whatever corporate agenda "du jour".

i was just wondering about the distance between these vehicles, and if that really would add up to some amount of finite-non-zero fuel savings as well ? for example, the lead vehicle just pushes the air away, and the rest following close by in the "slip-stream" experience less overall air resistance...