It’s a refrigerated good. No human is safely driving from California to Pennsylvania in 3 days. If you need something fresh, this is basically telling supermarkets and distributors that robots can get it to you faster.
Refrigerated cargo has a not insignificant carbon foot print. If self driving trucks can deliver it sooner/faster, then it’s a good thing.
They mention it because there's a longer distance self driving semi-truck record, but it wasn't hauling anything.
I imagine the point is that it hauled a refrigerated fragile load, and it arrived unscathed.
No single driver can make that time, but a two person team can make coast to coast in 3days in decent weather.
The issue with all these autonomous vehicles is that this country regularly has some nasty weather.
I hope that people will do more than read the title before posting low-effort dismissals.