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On private roads in Canada, the mining giant Teck is starting to use autonomous transport trucks.
https://im-mining.com/2021/05/05/teck-adds-autonomous-mining-trucks-plus-battery-copper-concentrate-road-hauler-introduced/
To me this is less frightening for public safety and more for reasons related to climate change, since this kind of industrial expansion will be less contingent on worker availability.
Mind you, the whole push toward driverless vehicles seems insanely redundant as a concept, since driverless tech in the form of high-speed rail has been around for decades in an infinitely more efficient way than could ever be offered by personal vehicles.