Full Self Driving (Shallow Thoughts)

Full Self Driving

They're doing roadwork on the highway near the house.

This is the sort of paving where they melt the old pavement, chew it all up into little pieces, mix it with tar or something then smear it back on the road.

They do it all at one time: there's a procession of trucks that each does a different step, and they all move together at a slow walking pace.

We rode our bikes over to watch it happening, and we noticed something interesting.

There's no one driving any of the trucks! They all have a cab, but the driver's seat is empty.

There's a person walking alongside the lead truck. He isn't holding any obvious control mechanism, though.

I never knew that road paving was an application where they're already using "full self driving".