I’m curious about whether the “autopilot+” model could be a useful stepping stone. If you always have a human driver on board, but they can take breaks while th

I’m curious about whether the “autopilot+” model could be a useful stepping stone. If you always have a human driver on board, but they can take breaks while the autopilot drives, maybe this covers a lot of the problematic scenarios? A human driver could look at traffic reports and plan to take the wheel on areas with congestion, road works, and the hilly sections that are technical. The boring straight shots they can sleep. Maybe this could get the duty cycle up to 100% and keep the truck moving non-stop? Really any material increase in the duty cycle would be incredibly valuable. This approach would help data collection (since you have a ground truth from the drivers) and would also mean you have a mechanic on hand to fix the out-of-cab issues that inevitably come up.