Drivers whose trucks are sidelined along a busy highway with service issues have for decades been required to place warning triangles behind the trailer to alert oncoming traffic, sometimes requiring them to walk precipitously in the often narrow space between the trailer and the highway as traffic whizzes by.
Now, a potentially easier and safer option is being proposed by two unlikely sources — autonomous technology developers Aurora and Waymo — and the idea has backing from the trucking industry.
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