Self-Driving Truck Completes Trip 10 Hours Faster Than Human Driver

Sure, it was able to handle this trip once during ideal conditions. What happens when road conditions become tricky? Will the AI be able to navigate a lane closure that forces it to drive on the shoulder due to an accident? How about adverse weather conditions?

The edge cases are where the real challenges are.

« The other question is: what about jobs? If this type of tech picks up, what will happen to truckers' jobs? Another question so far left unanswered. »

I am pretty sure that question has been answered, but the system doesn't want to hear it.

It's going to be interesting to see if the big backers of freight rail (like Warren Buffet) will fight autonomous trucking or buy into it, owning both modes of overland freight transit.