Autonomous Trucks
California already has rules governing self-driving cars and delivery trucks that weigh less than 10,001 pounds. Now, the California Department of Motor Vehicles is gathering information for potential new rules that would let self-driving semi-trucks weighing as much as 80,000 pounds on the road. Labor unions aren’t waiting around for that to happen. “There is no way they can think like that.”But beyond safety issues, labor unions see the technology as a threat to their jobs. The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Assn., an industry trade group that supports self-driving technology, has argued that autonomous trucks would make for safer roadways, asserting that computers make fewer mistakes than humans.