This startup sees the highways filled with self-driving big rigs

Alex Rodrigues and the team at Embark, a startup coming out of stealth today, want to change how we move freight across the country. Currently, tractor-trailer trucks, driven by more than 1.6 million drivers, carry sixty percent of freight moved in the United States. Embark instead sees a future where robot trucks move freight across the country and around the world.
Embark’s first truck, a Peterbilt, arrived in Nevada in August of last year and the company has been testing and refining it