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The trucks use radar sensors and cameras to monitor surrounding traffic and lane lines on highways. Daimler said the trucks are driven by humans in city and suburban environments, but the truck can take over and allow the driver to focus on other tasks during long stretches of highway.
Wolfgang Bernhard, head of Daimler's commercial truck operations, said it will be some time before the trucks are put into use for commercial purposes.
"We don't believe that everyone is going to jump on immediately," he told CNN Money. "It's a process."
Sven Ennerst, head of Daimler Trucks' development department, said each self-driving truck will still have a human in the driver's seat -- at least for the foreseeable future.
"We don't want to get rid of drivers," he told Wired. "We want to make their lives more efficient and more easy."