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"Bring on the disruption that is automation."

-- Elisha Wiesel, the chief information officer at Goldman Sachs

Tony Hughes has been a long-haul truck driver for more than 20 years. But today, all he has to do is sit back and relax.

"'Rosebud' is on," he said, flipping a switch.

Today, he's hauling 20,000 pounds of freight down the Florida turnpike in a self-driving, robotic truck. It's been retrofitted with a self-driving kit made by Starsky Robotics.

Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, who founded the company in 2016 with Kartik Tiwari, said, "We think that sometime towards the end of the year, we could be doing this run without a person behind the wheel."

Read more at CBS News.