The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs
<i>The demonstration in Europe shows that driverless trucking is right around the corner.  The primary remaining barriers are regulatory.</i><p>What about the roads themselves? I&#x27;m curious how an autonomous truck will handle a snow-covered highway, fog, potholes, and tight corners caused by narrow roads, bad parking, snow banks, etc. This is a way of life where I live (Boston area).<p>The article about the Russian driverless van (cited by @ommunist) talks with the experts, who are by no means 100% convinced this is &quot;right around the corner&quot;: (1)<p><i>Industry players are aware that just one serious accident on the roads involving a driverless car could set back their development by decades.<p>“Everyone has come to understand that the technology is 90 percent ready, but even when it’s 99.99 percent ready, it still won’t be launched,” says Gol, whose product is currently being tested in various scenarios and weather conditions.<p>“Until we can teach [artificial] intelligence to learn the nuances of things that can occur unexpectedly on the roads … what will happen if transparent glass is being carried across the road, what if there’s a paper bag that the system perceives as a rock,” the system isn’t ready, he said.<p>“We need a mathematical revolution to overcome that 0.01 percent,” says Gol. “We all understand perfectly that to have just one accident involving autonomous transport will have a huge fallout in society – the technology could be closed down completely for another 50 years. It’s a huge responsibility,” he added.</i><p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ninja.oximity.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;Russia-ready-for-driverless-bandwagon-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ninja.oximity.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;Russia-ready-for-driverles...</a>