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Tractor-trailers with no one aboard?

The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads

BY TOM KRISHER Associated Press
Posted 5/31/24

On a three-lane test track along the Monongahela River, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board.

A quarter-mile ahead, the truck's sensors spotted a trash can blocking one lane and a tire in another. In less than a second, it signaled, moved into the unobstructed lane and rumbled past the obstacles.

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