Can Truck Drivers Prepare for a Driverless Future?
In the excitement of new, self-driving trucks, we often forget that it may end up costing 3.5 million truck drivers, and others, their livelihoods. In May we talked about the imminent future of driverless trucks. We mentioned many of the new self-driving technologies and some of the top companies’ future truck prototypes. But what we didn’t really talk discuss: the future of truck drivers in a driverless society. While talk of new...
Driverless Trucks: Not If, But When?
We hear more and more about the future of self-driving vehicles. In just this month alone, Uber started officially testing a self-driving car in Pittsburgh, and Google, who has been working on their self-driving cars since 2009, has paired up with Fiat–Chrysler for further self-driving car development. While the future of autonomous passenger vehicles is inevitable, there is another transportation innovation that is in the works:...