Louisiana will soon permit autonomous semitrailer trucks on its public roads, following a bill that Gov. John Bel Edwards signed last month. It’s one of the first laws in any state to regulate self-driving commercial motor vehicles, a technology that is expected to upend the U.S. trucking industry within the next decade.
Under the law, autonomous trucks are permitted statewide, provided they can follow all federal and state traffic laws, have a minimum liability coverage of two million dollars, and are properly registered. The same restrictions will apply to driverless trucks that are operated remotely.
