Right then, feast your eyes on a KargoBot autonomous semi-truck, trundling along Chinese roads with not a human soul playing chaperone. This outfit, a spin-off from ride-hailing giant DiDi, is rolling out these L4 titans for bulk commodity transport, often in a rather clever “hybrid intelligent mode” where one actual driver shepherds a whole platoon of driverless lorries. It’s a cracking, if slightly disquieting, argument that the future of logistics is well and truly driverless.
