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.