It seems you, at least in 2015, had far more faith than I did and do in Congress’s and other government’s abilities to update laws to enable new technologies in a timely fashion. If someone had had a roughly complete autonomous truck prototype in 2015, it would have taken 3-5 years to start manufacturing, and 3-10 years more to really scale up and get into customer’s plans and procurement processes. It would also be essentially illegal to deploy almost anywhere, and every elected official would know that millions of truckers would hate them if they made any moves to improve the situation. The other side of that equation has a much harder time coordinating around the benefits of automation.
It seems you, at least in 2015, had far more faith than I did and do in Congress’s and other government’s abilities to update laws to enable new technologies in a timely fashion. If someone had had a roughly complete autonomous truck prototype in 2015, it would have taken 3-5 years to start manufacturing, and 3-10 years more to really scale up and get into customer’s plans and procurement processes. It would also be essentially illegal to deploy almost anywhere, and every elected official would know that millions of truckers would hate them if they made any moves to improve the situation. The other side of that equation has a much harder time coordinating around the benefits of automation.