Daimler Trucks North America showed off a self-driving big rig on the road atop ... night is called "Inspiration," and Daum said it was a first step, much like landing on the moon.

Last month, Aurora Innovation became the first company to operate a fully ... For comparison, consumer self-driving features like Tesla's — which are technically driver assistance systems ...

While it may seem jarring at first, their "self-driving truck" will actually have ... about sharing the highway with fully autonomous 18-wheeler trucks that have no human driver behind the wheel?