(Reuters) - Alphabet's Waymo is recalling more than 1,200 self-driving vehicles to update software and address risks of collisions with chains, gates and other roadway barriers after U.S. auto safety investigators opened a probe last year.
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Nothing is perfect the first time around.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/01/business/first-driverless-semis-started-regular-routes
Does the freight move faster? Nah. Will there still dimbles in cars carrying out unscheduled 'brake checks' on a truck weighing almost 80,000 lbs moving at 92 feet per second.
Oh, boy! The weigh scale experience!
But driverless tractor-trailers are not the solution.
https://www.prepassalliance.org/the-ongoing-truck-driver-shortage-causes-effects-and-solutions/#:~:text=The%20trucking%20industry%20has%20long,to%20over%20160%2C000%20by%202031..
This bothers me because manufacturers don’t always do the right thing, unless laws are enforced.
Musk has fired so many federal employees that I really worry about who will die as a consequence.