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Automation won’t eliminate truckers

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Technology, Trucks

Even though U.S. job openings are close to 11 million— including 580,000 openings in transportation, warehousing, and utilities—truckers...

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TuSimple automates nation’s first trucking lane in Arizona

Posted on Feb 2, 2022 in News, Trucks

Union Pacific Railroad will become the first customer to move freight on TuSimple’s fully-automated trucking route between the...

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Plus.ai, WORLDEX to deploy 3,000 autonomous trucks in 5 years

Posted on Jan 27, 2022 in News, Technology, Trucks

Beijing (Gasgoo)- On January 26th, China’s commercial vehicle autonomous driving technology developer, Plus.ai, entered into a partnership...

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Autonomous driving truck supplier Qingtian completes angel round of financing

Posted on Jan 27, 2022 in Finance, News, Trucks

Qingtian Truck Technology, an automated driving truck company, recently announced the completion of an angel round financing worth nearly...

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Trucking beating robotaxis in race to autonomous driving

Posted on Jan 26, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

The race to put self-driving vehicles on public roads took an unexpected turn in recent months, with autonomous trucks taking the pole...

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Autonomous driving startup TuSimple makes deal with Foton

Posted on Jan 20, 2022 in News, Technology, Trucks

On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that TuSimple, an autonomous driving technology startup, is in talks with commercial vehicle maker, Foton,...

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Autonomous trucking: achieving safe deployment of Level 4 systems

Posted on Jan 19, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the USA has seen the tonnage of goods shipped by trucks increase by 56% over the...

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Nvidia is pushing the limits in autonomous driving

Posted on Jan 15, 2022 in Knowledge Center, Perspective, Technology, Trucks, Videos & Podcasts

Autonomous driving is an engineering feat even with respect to small cars. But is the tech safe enough to scale up to trailer trucks? In...

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J.B. Hunt will be Waymo’s first self-driving freight customer

Posted on Jan 14, 2022 in News, Trucks

Waymo Via, the autonomous vehicle company’s trucking and cargo transportation unit, is expanding its existing partnership with logistics...

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Embark to develop autonomous truck tech to navigate snow

Posted on Jan 13, 2022 in News, Technology, Trucks

Embark Trucks has a plan to develop and deploy technology that would allow trucks equipped with Embark’s autonomous technology to navigate...

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Aurora, TuSimple have high expectations for 2022

Posted on Jan 11, 2022 in Technology, Trucks

Executives from self-driving technology companies Aurora and TuSimple during separate online events hosted by Morgan Stanley outlined...

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Plus keeps on trucking with IVECO autonomous pilot partnership

Posted on Jan 11, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

As a tech analyst, one of the particularly exciting topics I get to cover is the march towards fully autonomous vehicles. I’ve long...

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Can a self-driving 40-ton truck be safe? Developers say yes

Posted on Jan 9, 2022 in Perspective, Trucks

(Bloomberg) — Shipping companies and software developers are experimenting with self-driving trucks as a way to solve a driver...

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ATA presses USDOT for AV industry guidance

Posted on Jan 5, 2022 in News, Trucks

Facilitating the deployment of autonomous vehicle technologies in trucking is among the policies American Trucking Associations called on...

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Self-driving truck company TuSimple to use Nvidia chips for autonomous computing

Posted on Jan 4, 2022 in News, Technology, Trucks

Jan 4 (Reuters) – TuSimple Holdings Inc (TSP.O) on Tuesday said it has partnered with Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) to use the...

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Freetech reaches agreement with AllRide.ai to develop highly autonomous heavy-duty trucks

Posted on Dec 30, 2021 in News, Technology, Trucks

AllRide.ai announced a strategic cooperation agreement with Freetech on Tuesday. According to the arrangement, both parties will leverage...

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TuSimple completes its first driverless autonomous truck run on public roads

Posted on Dec 29, 2021 in News, Trucks

Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple has completed its first autonomous truck run on open public roads without a human in the vehicle,...

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China tests first automotive grade driverless delivery vehicle equipped with Huawei MDC

Posted on Dec 27, 2021 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

A driverless delivery vehicle named “Pioneer” developed by Juzhen Data Tech has started alpha testing for application scenarios at the...

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Chinese autonomous driving startup raises US$157 million from Hillhouse, Meituan

Posted on Dec 22, 2021 in Finance, News, Trucks

SHANGHAI : Haomo.AI, a Chinese autonomous driving startup controlled by Great Wall Motor’s Chairman Wei Jianjun, has raised nearly 1...

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ByteDance leads A round investments of Chinese autonomous driving startup Senior.auto

Posted on Dec 21, 2021 in Finance, News, Trucks

Beijing (Gasgoo)- China’s autonomous driving startup Senior.auto announced today that it had landed hundreds of million RMB in its...

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