Driverless freight trucks unsafe: Sterle

By Colin Bettles
Updated September 27 2018 - 12:24pm, first published March 31 2018 - 7:00am
 WA Labor senator Glenn Sterle has concerns about the use of driverless technology for heavy haulage vehicles in sectors like mining or farming, on public roads.
WA Labor senator Glenn Sterle has concerns about the use of driverless technology for heavy haulage vehicles in sectors like mining or farming, on public roads.

ONE day it’s a woman being fatally hit by an automated Uber vehicle in the United States, the next it could be a driverless freight train fully-loaded with cattle or grains crashing into a school bus full of children on a public road in regional Australia.

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