Wireless vehicle-to-vehicle communication is playing an increasingly important role in the development of more advanced vehicle automation and driver-assist features. A possible federal mandate of the technology could accelerate that movement.

Self-driving trucks are coming. The potential benefits to highway safety and freight efficiency, combined with heavy investments in vehicle automation by truck makers and suppliers, are making it increasingly clear that the advent of semi-autonomous trucks on the nation’s highways has become less a question of “if” than of “when.”

Truck makers and suppliers are investing heavily in vehicle automation technology, but what do their end customers think of it?

Perhaps no technology has captured so much attention so quickly in the trucking industry as automated driving and platooning systems.

As autonomous-driving technology continues to advance, one open question is whether this path eventually could lead to fully unmanned trucks traveling down the road.

Certification of electronic logging devices has been left to the device manufacturers under the federal ELD rule.