The current Freightliner Cascadia already features SAE level2 semi-autonomous driving capability. Picture: SUPPLIED
While some limited driverless tests with 18-wheelers have taken place in Arizona, a launch in Texas would mark the first commercial use. Alphabet’s Waymo Via and box-truck start-up Gatik, which counts Walmart as a customer, are setting up hubs there in preparation. The industry is using the bill as a blueprint when lobbying other states about regulating self-driving vehicles, a Gatik executive and safety researchers said.
Texas boasts some of the country’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas as well as several entry ports from Mexico. It also sits in the middle of one of the busiest US freight routes, Atlanta-Los Angeles, which carries more than 8,500 trucks daily, according to the US DOT. Self-driving companies hope to automate many of those highways.
“The state is not being laissez-faire about the operation of these vehicles, they have to comply with traffic laws,” TxDOT’s Anderson said.
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