Daily News Article - March 9, 2018
1. a) What is Uber Freight?
b) What other companies are creating autonomous truck technology?
2. How does Uber’s trucking program work? Be specific.
3. What challenges do companies developing self-driving truck technology face?
4. a) How are the companies promoting the self-driving truck technology to truck drivers?
b) What challenges do they face in persuading the drivers to buy into the technology?
5. How does Uber aim to use their autonomous truck technology, according to Uber’s Alden Woodrow?
6. What does Uber’s Arizona pilot program focus on? What doesn’t it do?
7. Head of Consumer Watchdog Group's John Simpson wrote in a recent letter to lawmakers that “any autonomous vehicle legislation should require a human driver behind a steering wheel capable of taking control." Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer.