Self driving Tractor-Trailer Unveiled

Technology has come to stay, making life so easy.


Expect truck drivers to get new responsibilities behind the wheel once they don’t have to actually drive the truck. (Daimler)

Daimler Trucks North America showed off a self-driving truck in a glitzy ceremony Tuesday at the Hoover Dam, offering a reminder of the coming era of autonomous vehicles. It says the truck is the first licensed autonomous commercial truck to operate on U.S. highways. Daimler purposefully unveiled the new truck from its subsidiary Freightliner in Nevada, a rare state to have passed laws for driverless vehicles.

Daimler hopes to trigger a national conversation about rules for self-driving vehicles. Only four U.S. states and the District of Columbia have passed laws related to autonomous driving.