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> No, no they're not. We have some lane tracking in good weather etc., but we are still decades (or more) away from full level-5 autonomy that would make drivers behind the wheel unnecessary.

How about a mixed adoption, on 99% of pure-highway the truck is driver-less, but there are dedicated service stations for a human driver to take over into the urban area.

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And maybe we'll call those autonomous trucks trains or something like that.

(In many/most cases, the long haul overland transportation today is already handled by freight railways. It's unclear how big a win there is to having what amounts to an additional form of intermodal transportation as opposed to just keeping a person around who can also handle breakdowns, etc.)