Self-Driving Trucks Are Coming—Here’s Why They Make Sense
▻http://singularityhub.com/2016/05/17/self-driving-trucks-are-coming-heres-why-they-make-sense
99% of truck driving is actually very straightforward — stay in a highway lane, usually the slow one, with no fancy moving about.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK76W1kH4jA
Some companies have done exploration of truck automation. Daimler/Freightliner has been testing trucks in Nevada. Volvo (trucks and cars together) has done truck and platooning experiments, notably the Sartre project some years ago. A recent group of European researchers did a truck demonstration in the Netherlands, leading up to the Declaration of Amsterdam which got government ministers to declare a plan to modify regulations to make self-driving systems legal in Europe.