this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
171 points (97.8% liked)

Technology

59218 readers
2512 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
171
California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks (driveteslacanada.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
33 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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 [...]

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FrankTheHealer 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why did they do this?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the article, safety concerns and job protection

[–] 5BC2E7 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