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I don't know how a machine program is going to drive in my city, many times you have to read the other driver face to know if he is going to respect the norms.

• return0 11y ago
  It will require a big leap of technology for this to work in europe. American roads are ready for robot drivers though.
• icebraining 11y ago
  That's not a problem for trucks, most of them don't go into the city centers anyway. And in any case, they can just drive themselves until they reach the city borders, then park themselves and wait for a human driver to pick them up. Instead of having hundreds of drivers on the roads, companies can just have a few on each endpoint. But I think you overestimate the difficulty of dealing with other drivers. Remember that self-driving cars have essentially immediate reactions and much better awareness of their surroundings. You can avoid a lot of accidents when you can track every car around you, millisecond by millisecond.
• foobarian 11y ago
  It's not necessary for the automation to solve the most difficult environments. As long as it can handle the majority of the distance it would be quite useful. For example a small number of operators could get the trucks to a depot near a highway, trucks could drive autonomously non-stop across the country, and then another operator could manually move them from a receiving depot to a local destination.