Matt Hart, executive director of the Illinois Trucking Association, said trucking companies have been settling numerous frivolous lawsuits after they put safety technology in trucks. “The trucking industry invests $9.5 billion each year to keep truck drivers safe and the motoring public safe. In Illinois, BIPA deters trucking companies from investing in new safety technology that could make our roads even safer."
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.