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California’s War on Autonomous Trucking

Safer than Sikh drivers I bet!

As notorious as California freeways are, the state’s leading gubernatorial candidates are vying to make things even worse. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and billionaire fossil-fuel investor Tom Steyer have each vowed to reverse the California DMV policy authorizing autonomous truck testing. Though framed publicly as a safety issue, the candidates occasionally reveal that the real conflict is between labor and technology.

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