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May 7, 2015

First self-driving vehicle may be a big rig

  • Freeways have no intersections, red lights or pedestrians, making for a much less complex trip.
  • By KIMBERLY PIERCEALL
    Associated Press

    LAS VEGAS — Although much attention has been paid to autonomous vehicles being developed by Google and traditional car companies, one truck maker believes that automated tractor-trailers will be rolling along highways before self-driving cars are cruising around the suburbs.

    On freeways there are no intersections, no red lights, no pedestrians, making it a far less complex trip, said Wolfgang Bernhard, a management board member of Germany's Daimler AG, at an event in Las Vegas.


     
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