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Self-Driving Budweiser Truck Makes 120 Mile Delivery

While patchwork laws exist, technology is moving forward.

Just earlier today I did a blog posting on the downside of getting driverless cars permitted on the roadways and standardizing laws so that they can "move freely about the country." Then, again — today, there is this, Self-driving truck makes first trip — a 120-mile beer run.

Let me interpret this a bit more for you. Besides not starting a career as being a taxi driver, I think you can cross off "long-haul truck driver" from your list of lifelong professions if you are a Gen Y or even a Gen X person.

When it is safer, more economical and reduces carbon, driverless trucks will be the standard — coming soon to a state near you.

I wonder what the Budweiser Clydesdales think about a "driverless wagon?"

 



 

 

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
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