That's easy, they are lobbyist for the trucking industry...no driver = cheaper cost = higher profit margins.
It's been established that PTC is not a guarantee there will be no wrecks, and the t ank train wreck in Canada a few years ago, established that only one man on the crew, is insufficient to secure a heavy train on a descending grade. There are limits to cost cutting and limits to automation.
Railroads are paranoid that driverless tractors will put them out of business. But with a two person crew, the economics of scale favor a long train with distributed power over a whole bunch of driverless tractors piling in to one another on an icy interstate. I would be equally scared of sharing the road with an autonomous truck, or riding a train sharing the railroad with crew less trains. I also have the same reservations about autonomous vehicles, currently being lobbied for by Mr Musk, and the Insurance Industry.
As a Tesla owner I can certainly say in the uk a self drive model is very unlikely to work
1 when passing a parked car on the side of the road you are driver it west itself
2 sometimes if a car at a side ride is not straight on it west itself
3 when on self drive and it hits a sharp curve it has a girlie attack and throws the control back to the driver,you need to pay attention or end up in a ditch
4 only this year it managed to get traffic lights
5 it can finally tell the difference between traffic cones and people, wearing yellow can still phase it though
6 british roundabouts send it into a tail spin, it goes left it goes right it has a fit and basically says eeeeeeeeek you drive
although I can say in the last year I have been amazed at its progress
7 would I trust it on a British back road with tight curves, not in a bloody heartbeat, it’s like a computer game, you turn it on you watch it like a hawk knowing it will f a i l …
but I love it, far far superior to anything else, and on a motorway, it is relatively relaxing, but I would not trust it, and luckily the car pulls over if you fail to pay attention as it has a keep your hands on the wheel issue or else the screen slowly flashes blue and the steering wheel shakes then it pulls you over, apparently this has saved at least two heart attack people from crashing, it should call the emergency services also.
but yeah can’t see it replacing a driver any time soon,anything tricky and it sets itself. As for the call it in the car park, it could not even leave my home parking spot to come to me 10 feet, mmm no no it felt safe where it was, and the nee dance
scheme may be fun but not practical and in the uk we don’t get the ice cream van music, still better than my series 4 bmw or my vogue Range Rover both of which were great drives in their day, actually the bmw series 4 coupe was a lovely drive if that had been available in a Tesla style vehicle I would have had it in a heart beat. The porche ev is a lot more and frankly holds no appeal the cab is too small I like a roomy space, and the Tesla 3 is not large but feels comfortable. It is white or should I say extremely dirty white
lol, my car my choice, with faux white leather. We were going to get a pkastic skin but have not got around to it, plus I think on reflection drawing attention to it targets it for damage. Still some of those skins are crazy fun.so far cross fingers we have not experienced any issues with the paint job that non Tesla drivers cite, which I did have on the black bmw with red leather interior, I only ever wore red or black when driving it lol, I don’t do white Clothing,well not much.I personally think railroad and normal lorries are safe for the moment, or for the investment, although fuel costs are gonna hurt,thank god I have solar.