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by homero 3426 days ago
Trucks can drive a well studied route, self driving cars are much more complicated
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The road is not predictable. A deer running across, a car cutting you off, rain, snow, a tire blow out, any number of random events can happen. It just occurs less often on a freeway than the city. You still have the solve the same problems, however, if you don't want a human in the car.