Hybrid human-machine driving

In military aviation, the long march of automation is converging on future of “manned-unmanned teaming", where "a pilot hands off some tasks to a computer while managing others." As more sophisticated human-computer interfaces for pairing human decisionmakers with AVs that can drive themselves through most situations, "[m]any air forces hope that, one day, a single human pilot might even orchestrate, though not micromanage, a whole fleet of accompanying unmanned planes."

This suggests a future where in place of fully-automated driving, commercial fleets may follow a similar model—with one or more pilots working together to manage a fleet of heavy vehicles.