controlling fish tailing tractor trailers in snow would be on the harder end of the spectrum of automating truck driver problems Yes and no. On the one hand it

controlling fish tailing tractor trailers in snow would be on the harder end of the spectrum of automating truck driver problems Yes and no. On the one hand it's hard problem because of all the variables involved, on the other hand it's easy because it's 'just' a physics problem. There is no trying to second guess the intentions of other humans acting weirdly, no trying to decipher hastily erected diversion signs, no trying to interpret what that guy standing in the road waving a sign at you actually wants you to do etc.