Jason Baker drives through Dallas, Texas while en route to Houston in June of 2022. Dallas is the current epicenter of autonomous truck testing and deployment, due to its strategic location and ability to reach most of the lower continental 48 states within a 24-hour period, with an autonomous truck. Currently, the routes in the Sunbelt between Atlanta and LA are the prime targets for autonomous trucks, before they push farther north into the manufacturing hubs in the Rust Belt. Despite industry claims of safety being the chief concern, autonomous truck lanes are targeting the highest density and most profitable freight lanes in the United States, which are also the most highly congested and with the most people.