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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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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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