Former Google self-driving employee wants self-driving lorries on the curcuit
Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer for their autonomous vehicles research unit has started a company, called Otto, that aims to put self-navigation trucks onto 350,000km of US highways on their own. The company has already assembled 40 employees to the service from the likes of Apple, Tesla and Google. Otto, within its first few months already has extended a test of its system on a public highway in Nevada; despite this success, their expert of transportation technology, Steven Shladover, predicts the objective won't be reached for decades due to safety concerns. 

An Otto driverless truck, based on a Volvo big rig, at a garage in San Francisco. Photo: AP