Self-driving trucks will likely arrive before cars

In the past two and a half years, emphasis on developing self-driving cars has shifted, large sums of money have been invested into autonomous trucking startups and it now seems that self-driving trucks, not cars, would be quicker to hit public roads en masse.

One reason put forward is that trucks are only tackling the easy parts of self-driving, focusing on highways, which are generally wide and smooth, with steady traffic flow.

Another reason is that the business case may be more appealing than that for self-driving cars with the new-found importance of logistics amid pandemic online shopping boom and related disruptions, including traffic jams at ports and driver shortages that led to shipping delays.

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