[Zhang Fei]

[The truck, which traveled on interstates 15 and 70 right before Thanksgiving, had to take scheduled breaks but drove mostly autonomously

Goofy. ]

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My guess is that we will eventually get to the point that multiple trucks are operated remotely by a single human driver, much as pilots fly multiple drones. His job will be to monitor the trucks’ sensors to make sure than they’re not about to get into a multi-vehicle pileup. The beauty of this arrangement is that the work will be less stressful for the drivers, given that they can do this from home or a local office, and bathroom breaks would merely involve a temporary hand-off to some other human operator rather looking for a rest stop. And the trucks could be operated 24 hours a day by different human operators working in shifts vs the current 11 hours on, 10 hours off.

[digger48]

Who fuels them up and bops the tires?

[fproy2222]

“single human driver”

My thoughts are that it will end up using operators in different areas and the trucks will be handed off to the next operator.

[Elsie]

My guess is that we will eventually get to the point that multiple trucks are operated remotely by a single human driver,

We have those now. They are pretty much known as TRAINS!

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As a side note: Indianapolis has shut down it's driverless monorail.

[Elsie]

... bathroom breaks would merely involve a temporary hand-off to some other human operator rather looking for a rest stop. ..

Or the gallon jug that has rolled under the seat.

[GodAndCountryFirst]

That will be great. That would be the END of the Teamster’s Union. Overpaid truck drivers could be replaced by cheap remote-control jockeys anywhere in the world. If I owned a trucking company, I’d put the control centers in Vietnam or Cambodia. Those workers are smart and work cheap.