Swedish truck OEM Einride has completed a two-week public road pilot of its autonomous, electric vehicle. The vehicle transported finished goods from GE Appliances’ facilities.
The robotaxis blocked traffic for a few hours until employees arrived to manually move the autonomous vehicles.
While competitors such as Cruise, Waymo, and Zoox are fixated on San Francisco, Argo has turned its attention to Austin and Miami, where the regulatory environment is less restrictive and commercial partners, tech and talent resources are still plentiful.
Gatik’s deployment with Walmart in Arkansas will be first time that an autonomous trucking company has removed the safety driver from a commercial delivery route on the middle mile.
Penske, Schneider and U.S. Xpress are among the first wave of customers to reserve the autonomous International LT Series.
Self-driving truck developer Plus.ai recently made an agreement with the Transportation Research Center (TRC) to conduct capability tests of Plus.ai’s self-driving system using a multi-vehicle approach.
Season two of the HDT Talks Trucking podcast is now available, covering topics such as California’s AB5 law restricting the use of independent contractors, autonomous trucks, electric trucks, and reducing unscheduled downtime.
Starsky Robotics founder Stefan Seltz-Axmacher said his autonomous trucks development company is shutting down. "Trucking companies aren’t great technology customers," he said.
Penske’s Bill Combs and Waymo’s Charlie Jatt believe the trucking industry can reap the benefits before achieving Level 5 autonomy through repositioning warehouses that are optimized for AVs, employing tele-operations, and adapting automated safety technologies available now.
Waymo has begun carrying out interstate mapping operations by a fleet of minivans in New Mexico and Texas – a move that is seen by many tech observers as a prelude to long-haul evaluation runs of tractor-trailers under autonomous control.
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