Plus and NVIDIA deal gives indications of our autonomous truck future
I’ve written before that autonomous vehicles will be one of the most powerful, most influential new technologies we see in our lifetimes. While much of the talk has centered around consumer vehicles, taxicabs and the like, another sector that stands to be heavily impacted is trucking. This industry plays a crucial role in the world economy. Here in the U.S., commercial vehicles move over an estimated 70% of all freight, a trend that’s only accelerated as Covid-19 drove people towards e-commerce and next-day delivery services. All the while, the trucking industry is facing a shortage of drivers, with the American Trucking Associating estimating the freight industry will be coming up 160,000 drivers short of demand by 2028. That is if nobody does anything about it.