THE CAR AND TRUCK FLEET AND LEASING MANAGEMENT MAGAZINE
The state's Department of Motor Vehicles will start approving permits in January for commercial use of autonomous delivery vehicles under 10,001 pounds on public roads.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently met with General Motors to talk about its petition to deploy self-driving vehicles without steering wheels or other human controls.
Currently, more than three in four people drive to work in single occupant vehicles, as has been for the past 20 years.
Let’s get a framework in place and a legislative plan that allows us to develop autonomous vehicle technologies without putting lives at risk in the short term.
Another consolidation among global truck makers is in the works: Sweden’s Volvo Group is selling its Japan-based UD Trucks business to Isuzu Motors.
Volkswagen Group of America has joined the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium, a engineering working group that's developing best safety practices for AV technology.
Plus.ai's SAE-Level-4 autonomous truck recently completed a coast-to-coast commercial freight run hauling a refrigerated load for Land O’Lakes. The 2,800-mile, hub-to-hub trip was completed in less than three days.
At a recent conference at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Shell presented an array of speakers who sized up the state of alternative fuel technologies in trucking and a likely timeline for real-world adoption of these new means of moving freight.
Presidential candidate Andrew Yang said in the Democratic primary debate in Atlanta on Nov. 20 that if elected, he would appoint a "trucking czar" to oversee the transition from human drivers to autonomous vehicles.
The National Transportation Safety Board is urging Congress and the state of Arizona to create a review process to make it safer when autonomous vehicles are tested on public roadways.