When fully automated, legal and truly driverless trucks are a functionality reality, who needs trucking companies, truck drivers, even traditional truck makers anymore?
Recent driverless/autonomous trucking developments might underscore the implied point.
Driverless trucks at scale might never hit truly specialized and/or permitted loads, including some of Jordan's company's 900 trucks' work in heavy haul, he acknowledged.
Public driverless acceptance a ways out For now, all panelists suggested, the general public seems at one with truck drivers who fear driverless prospects.
Driverless trucks, he said, "inevitably," will "find an application."