Trucks with no one aboard? The future is near for driverless trucks on US roads | Tom Krisher

PITTSBURGH—On a three-lane test track along the Monongahela River, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board. A quarter-mile ahead, the truck’s sensors spotted a trashcan blocking one lane and a tire in another. In less than a second, it signaled, moved into the unobstructed lane and…

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