I don’t t suspect it’s a technical issue at all, it’s economic. Trucking and truck routes do have a strong incentive to switch eventually. But the examples giv

I don’t t suspect it’s a technical issue at all, it’s economic. Trucking and truck routes do have a strong incentive to switch eventually. But the examples given of Cruise and Waymo are losing tons of money. Trucking companies would need to rework their business model around these hubs. So they won’t invest in this yet, not until it’s closer. And for parties trying to make self driving work, it makes sense to try it on smaller, less expensive vehicles first. It’s the number of miles driven that drives learning rates, and if your cost per mile driven is lower, you get more learning per dollar. And achieving true autonomy also needs a variety of scenarios, not just freeway. So being freeway only isn’t quite the advantage you would want. A million miles of city and highway driving helps you learn more than a million miles of highway driving. I think regulators know this intuitively too, and are more prone to approve.