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Plus and IVECO announce autonomous driving test in Europe and China

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

Self-driving truck company, Plus and IVECO, the commercial vehicles brand of CNH Industrial, announced that they will jointly conduct...

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Autonomous trucks beat cars for safety and cybersecurity

Posted on Dec 20, 2021 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

For the AV industry, the drive to bring autonomous vehicles to the real world has been a long journey marked by myriad twists and turns....

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Waymo – designed to deliver: bringing the benefits of our 5th generation hardware to trucking

Posted on Dec 20, 2021 in Technology, Trucks

At Waymo, we’re developing one core autonomous driving platform—the Waymo Driver—consisting of hardware and software, which builds the...

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TuSimple locks in self-driving trucks deal with DHL

Posted on Dec 16, 2021 in News, Trucks

Self-driving trucks developer TuSimple has reached a deal to integrate its autonomous vehicle technology into DHL Supply Chain’s...

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Aurora self-driving trucks are using Uber Freight to haul goods for customers

Posted on Dec 15, 2021 in News, Trucks

Aurora’s self-driving trucks are hauling goods for Uber Freight customers in Texas as part of a multiphase commercial pilot that aims to...

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Transportation trends for 2022 and beyond: can autonomy safely address the driver shortage?

Posted on Dec 13, 2021 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

When does a technology really grow? When it is attached to a need. When it comes to the movement of freight, one megatrend driving the...

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Trucks catch up in the self-driving vehicle race

Posted on Dec 9, 2021 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

OXFORD, England, Dec 9 (Reuters) – We’d all be whizzing round in robotaxis by now if Elon Musk had been right. Instead, fully...

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Commercial vehicle HMI must build trust with drivers

Posted on Dec 6, 2021 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Countless headlines have touted the near-term promise of autonomous trucks in recent years: “Fully autonomous fleets are just around the...

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Daimler Truck sets industry benchmark with redundant scalable truck platform for autonomous driving

Posted on Dec 2, 2021 in Technology, Trucks

Daimler Truck is developing a scalable autonomous truck platform that is perfectly suited for SAE Level 4 autonomous driving, including...

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Ford conducts autonomous parcel delivery trial at UK port

Posted on Dec 2, 2021 in News, Trucks

Ford and DP World London Gateway, a port facility on the UK’s River Thames, have conducted a trial with a simulated autonomous vehicle to...

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Aurora partners with Amazon Web Services on autonomous vehicle development

Posted on Dec 1, 2021 in News, Technology, Trucks

Self-driving startup Aurora has announced it will be using data giant Amazon Web Services to power its cloud-based machine learning and...

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CloudTrucks raised $115M Series B to help truck entrepreneurs manage their business

Posted on Nov 30, 2021 in Finance, News, Trucks

CloudTrucks wants to use technology to help trucking entrepreneurs operate their business: The California-based startup sells business...

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Locomation: autonomous platooning tech can cut fuel consumption, GHG footprint

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

Locomation said an independent evaluation found its Autonomous Relay Convoy system can dramatically reduce the greenhouse gas footprint,...

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Ride and drives of Plus’s commercially available autonomous trucking product draw enthusiastic response at ATA MCE 2021 in Nashville

Posted on Nov 30, 2021 in News, Trucks

Plus’s autonomy-enabled big rigs wowed industry executives and journalists attending ATA MCE 2021 in Nashville, where Plus was the only...

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Fully driverless deliveries is a first for autonomous trucking

Posted on Nov 18, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

While self-driving cars continue to capture the headlines, autonomous trucks have quietly made just as much, if not more, progress toward...

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Trunk.tech wins new round of financing, company to accelerate mass production of self driving trucks

Posted on Nov 17, 2021 in Finance, News, Trucks

On Wednesday, autonomous trucking startup Trunk.tech, also known as TRUNK, disclosed a new round of financing worth several hundred...

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UPS adds Waymo as second partner to test autonomous big rigs

Posted on Nov 17, 2021 in News, Technology, Trucks

United Parcel Service Inc. is adding Waymo, the autonomous vehicle unit owned by Google parent Alphabet Inc., as a second partner to test...

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Plus selects Aeva 4D LiDAR for production of autonomous trucks

Posted on Nov 15, 2021 in News, Technology, Trucks

Plus, a self-driving truck technology provider, has selected Aeva to supply automotive-grade long-range 4D LiDAR for the production of...

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FAW-Jiefang-backed Zhito Technology receives hundred of millions RMB in first investment round

Posted on Nov 15, 2021 in Finance, News, Trucks

Beijing (Gasgoo)- Zhito Technology, the FAW Jiefang-backed commercial vehicle autonomous driving startup, has completed a...

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26-year-old CEO takes his autonomous truck company public in $5 billion deal

Posted on Nov 11, 2021 in Finance, News, Trucks

When Alex Rodrigues started his company Embark Trucks Inc., he couldn’t rent a car without age restrictions. Now 26, Rodrigues becomes one...

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