One Driver, Two Trucks: Is This the Future of Freight? 

Photo: In truck platooning, the driver in the lead truck controls the follower truck. Photo credit: Ohio Department of Transportation | DriveOhio | I70 Truck Automation Project. Article by Willie D. Jones. IEEE Spectrum – May 22, 2025.

The pair of semi trucks cruising down Interstate 70 between Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis may seem unremarkable at first glance. But these rigs are part of a groundbreaking pilot project that could reshape the U.S. freight industry. Launched in April through a joint initiative between the Ohio and Indiana Departments of Transportation (DOTs), the project tests semiautonomous “platooning” technology, in which a lead truck operated by a human driver is linked to a follower truck via encrypted, military-grade communications. […]

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