Autonomous truck cleared to drive on US roads for the first time

[denbot]

8. Baugh!

I'll worry about a logarithm doing a better job at driving a big rig then me, when we can maintain a major roadway without potholes. Now, imagine how likely even a weak republican caucus would allow voting for the funding to create, say, a Highway I-80 with embedded IR/FM, and a network with the bandwidth required to communicate a myriad of data to each node; ie; vehicle.

Now imagine the investment required to extend that network to every conceivable delivery point.

Has for a computer to reliably "read a risk matrix", would you bet your life on a technology as well developed as a GPS unit? I use them on a regular basis, the best available for commercial drivers. I don't think any sane person would completely trust their GPS, a well developed, and relatively simple technology.

Baugh!