[lm28469]

> also leave the roads free for people to walk.

I don't think the kind of truck they're aiming to automatise ever enter cities.

What kind of drones and what kind of goods are you talking about ? Let's say you want to transport 40T of potatoes over 2k miles, how would that work ?

Drones are good for the last few miles of the delivery (for small consumer goods), and even then there are tons of issues to fix before they'll be viable.

https://www.trucking.org/News_and_Information_Reports_Indust...

> 11.49 billion tons of freight (primary shipments only) transported by trucks in 2018, representing 71.4% of total domestic tonnage shipped.