AI in Freight and Trucking Quiz

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1. What are deadhead miles in trucking?
   • Miles driven with an empty truck
   • Miles driven in autonomous mode
   • Miles driven only at night
   • Miles driven on toll roads
2. What does Convoy's 2023 shutdown illustrate?
   • Autonomous trucks are unsafe
   • Safety cameras are illegal
   • Better matching technology alone can't overcome weak freight market conditions
   • Human brokers are no longer used
3. Why do driver-safety cameras typically run their vision models on the device?
   • It makes filming cheaper
   • So alerts can fire without a cellular connection
   • To avoid recording the road
   • Because lidar requires it
4. What does the hub-to-hub model of autonomous trucking mean?
   • Driverless trucks deliver door to door in cities
   • Drones relay cargo between warehouses
   • Only human drivers are used on highways
   • Autonomous trucks drive highways between transfer yards while human drivers handle local legs
5. Why do autonomous trucks need long-range perception?
   • Trucks drive faster than cars
   • Regulations ban short-range cameras
   • A loaded truck needs a much longer stopping distance
   • To read street signs in cities
6. On which route did Aurora begin commercial driverless operations in 2025?
   • Dallas to Houston
   • Los Angeles to Seattle
   • New York to Boston
   • Chicago to Detroit
7. What do freight pricing models mainly estimate?
   • The fuel tax owed
   • Each driver's hourly wage
   • A truck's resale value
   • The rate at which a load is very likely to be picked up, similar to a market-clearing price
8. Besides real-time alerts, how do fleets commonly use safety camera video?
   • To set freight prices
   • To clear drivers of blame after crashes and to coach them
   • To steer the truck
   • To match loads to carriers