Sterle warns driverless freight trucks unsafe for public roads

Colin Bettles
March 24 2018 - 8:30am
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 US, 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.

Colin Bettles

Colin Bettles

Canberra Bureau Chief

Has been the Canberra Bureau Chief for Fairfax Agricultural Media since 2010 - survived the hung parliament - former media manager at Western Australian Cricket Association now covering national agricultural and rural issues in federal politics.

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