You'd be forgiven if you tend to cringe when thinking about 18-wheelers running down the highway without drivers.

The trucking industry knows this and is trying to address it, because driverless vehicles might be more efficient and less prone to accidents than those operated by human beings. (One day. Maybe. Perhaps.)

According to the paper, Walmart has joined with the Arkansas Trucking Association and several companies to make up a newly formed "autonomous trucking council," which sounds like a committee. Committees are awful when it comes to writing (except the King James Bible and the U.S. Constitution, both inspired by God), but committees seem OK when coming up with safety concerns. In that case, the more the........

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