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Self-driving tractor-trailers heading for U.S. roads
Within three or four years, Aurora Innovation and its competitors expect to put thousands of self-driving trucks on America's public freeways. But the image of driverless semis on highways concerns many people, polls show.
Gene J. Puskar / AP Within three or four years, Aurora and its competitors expect to put thousands self-driving trucks on America's public freeways. Phil Koopman, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who studies vehicle automation, agreed that self-driving trucks can theoretically be safer. On the test track, reporters saw Aurora's semis avoid simulations of road obstacles, including pedestrians, a blown tire, even a horse.
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