The 80,000-pound tractor-trailer sharing the road with you may not have a driver behind the wheel. A recently opened trucking facility in Villa Rica, Georgia, was created to serve autonomous trucks driving the heavily traveled Dallas-to-Atlanta corridor. Georgia law allows the operation of autonomous vehicles without an operator or driver. The first crash occurred in 2016, when a Tesla plowed under a semi-truck on a U.S. route in Florida. We have already seen attempts in Congress to limit the amount of information that is available through binding confidential arbitration in these types of cases.

Source: Washington Post January 09, 2024 05:04 UTC