Archive: https://archive.today/uRuTV From the post: >>Highway work zone crashes kill hundreds of people nationwide each year — two Colorado workers last year — but a new driverless, autonomous highway maintenance truck in Colorado aims to shield workers from deadly rear-end collisions by taking the hit itself. At a press event in Falcon on Monday, the Colorado Department of Transportation demonstrated an autonomous truck-mounted attenuator — a driverless crash-protection vehicle designed to absorb impacts in roadside work areas. These trucks are already in the state’s fleet, but previously required a worker in the cab, leaving them exposed during crashes.