A group of ex-Google engineers have gotten together to form a California-based start up called Otto that promised to accelerate the deployment of self-driving trucks onto U.S. highways.  Although this isn’t getting as much attention as self-driving cars, there are a number of equally dramatic developments in self-driving touch technology – yet the technical, regulatory, standards,  insurance, and public acceptance challenges are largely the same.   Otto’s Plan for Self-Driving Trucks