&quot;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.&quot;<p>It won&#x27;t; at least, it won&#x27;t need to handle narrow roads, bad parking, snow banks, etc.<p>The autonomous truck need not drive the whole route that a human driver does now.  Drive down the Ohio Turnpike and you will see numerous parking lots with UPS trailers parked in them, right alongside the highway.  All you need is an autonomous truck to drive the trailer down the turnpike.  Humans can drop it off at the turnpike and pick it up.  It could deal with typical weather events, or just look at the weather forecast and stay parked if the weather looks like it will be bad.<p>The highways are cleared shoulder to shoulder a day or two after most snows so the autonomous trucks wouldn&#x27;t lose too much yearly time due to bad weather.  You could keep humans around to drive the more urgent shipments.