Bot Auto, a Houston-based autonomous trucking company, has been conducting full driverless testing with a safety driver since ...

The devastating crash on I-20 that left five people dead and one critically injured is raising new questions about the push toward autonomous trucking.

Semi-trucks are sometimes called other names, including big rig, semis, or 18-wheelers, and for the last moniker, this is because of the combined number of wheels of both the tractor and the trailer.

Could autonomous trucks prevent accidents like the deadly I-20 crash, when an 18-wheeler driver allegedly fell asleep at the wheel?