Imagine you pull up to a red traffic light in your car. A notification pops up on your car’s dash: “OK to Text.”

As you text away on your mobile phone, the dash notification counts down the time until the light turns green. Then the texting function of your phone is suspended.

Last year’s fatal crash of a Tesla on autopilot was caused in large part by overreliance on the vehicle’s automation features.

That’s the finding released yesterday by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) which investigates vehicle crashes and issues safety guidance.

Are we overestimating the capabilities of today’s autonomous vehicles and does that create a false sense of security?

That’s the primary question explored by our CTO Andrew Silver in a guest column published this week by American Trucker, a leading publication serving the trucking industry.