Are driverless trucks in California a dead issue?


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Nine years later, the DMV still has not created a permitting process for testing heavy-duty AV trucks, even with a safety driver on board. Framework discussions spawn opposition bill – AB 316The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association (AVIA) and autonomous trucking developers encouraged the framework discussions. It looked like California might finally join states like Texas and Arizona, where human-monitored autonomous trucks advance toward removing the driver. Autonomous trucks cost many times as much as a traditional diesel or even a battery-powered electric vehicle. He has said little other than a recent comment that “you can’t stop the future.”Technically, AB 316 wouldn’t stop driverless trucking.