But at a recent hearing, lawmakers absorbed an economic argument that illustrated how the driverless revolution they are encouraging could backfire politically, particularly in Trump country. A robotic truck coasted driverless 120 miles down Interstate 25 in Colorado on its way to deliver 51,744 cans of Budweiser. Driverless vehicles threaten to dramatically reduce America’s 1.7-million trucking jobs. They don’t expect it to slow the arrival of fleets of self-driving trucks on the road. The company has in recent weeks started test-runs in which it is using self-driving trucks to ship smart refrigerators from a warehouse in Texas to a distribution center in Palm Springs.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 21, 2017 17:15 UTC