Part of what it means to be a successful business owner is being able to keep one step ahead of emerging technologies. One of the emerging technologies that are relevant to every business owner who must send his products to market via fleet driving is semi-autonomous vehicles. The whole concept should not be foreign to anyone who has ever used cruise control which provides autonomous driving to a certain degree. Fully autonomous vehicles will be, and to some extent already are, capable of performing actions independent of the driver, such as adaptive cruise control, collision avoidance braking, parking assist as well as other traffic maneuvers. The hope of companies that are poised to use autonomous vehicles in their fleet is that they (a) will reduce the number of accidents; (b) they will increase driver productivity, and (c) maximize fuel efficiency.
