Autonomous Vehicles
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Embark Trucks tallies 14,200 prelaunch reservations for driverless software
With 14,200 reservations for its autonomous trucking software, Embark Trucks predicts it will surpass the first-year revenue target.
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How much do Waymo Via’s autonomous trucks benefit from driverless cars?
Waymo autonomous truck engineering lead Boris Sofman makes the case that a decade of self-driving car efforts blazed the path to driverless trucks.
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Truck Talk: Short sellers and SPACs edition
Truck Talk is a weekly newsletter that brings perspective and context to happenings in the commercial trucking ecosystem.
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Who will survive the coming shakeout of lidar suppliers?
Lidar startups are selling their wares to autonomous vehicles and other businesses, hedging their bets to survive in an overpopulated field.
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Truck Talk: There’s a grant for that edition
Truck Talk is a weekly FreightWaves newsletter providing perspec on autonomous, electrification and other key issues in the trucking ecosystem.
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Real-world autonomy: Navigating a traffic jam and a crash scene
Five of 16 challenges to removing the driver from Embark’s high-autonomy truck remain, but a ride-along shows how much the startup has already mastered.
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Plus delivering autonomous systems in China after equipping Amazon trucks in US
The Plus supervised autonomy system differs Level 4 testing by competitors, but it puts some automated driving functions within reach of fleets faster.
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Goodbye to spinning chicken buckets; hello to aesthetic AV design
New-generation autonomous trucks are losing their Frankenstein’s monster image thanks to better-packaged technology designs.
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AV company Gatik taps Goodyear for intelligent tire technology
Middle-mile autonomous vehicle company Gatik will use Goodyear intelligent tire technology on its vehicles to collect and transmit critical tire data in real time.
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Truck Talk: Machine gun-tested edition
Truck Talk is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on the week's happenings in the trucking industry.
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