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California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks (driveteslacanada.ca)

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California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks::California’s State Senate this week passed a bill which, if signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, would require autonomous semi-trailer trucks to have a trained human safety operator whenever they operate on public roads [...]

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[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why did they do this?

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the article, safety concerns and job protection

[–] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Probably to protect jobs. They are willing to risk our lives in cities since they allow autonomous cars there. So it’s unlikely that they have safety concerns with trucks