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Uber’s Self-Driving Big Rig Plan: What Does it Mean for Truck Drivers?
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Oct. 26, 2016 | JOBS | Uber, best known for it’s ride-hailing app, has been branching out lately. The company’s latest venture: long-haul driverless trucking. It’s still early days for driverless technology: Otto trucks have a driver and an engineer on board at all times. What then, does the arrival of self-driving big rigs mean for truckers and for long-haul shipping companies? “It’s important that there be a full understanding in testing of the potential benefits and risks, as well as limitations – our current infrastructure being one. We believe experienced, skilled drivers will be needed well into the future,” Kara Deniz, press secretary for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, tells The Christian Science Monitor in an email…csmonitor.com
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