How is it that California, the world’s fifth-largest economy and the state most autonomous trucking startups call home, refuses to allow commercial testing of the technology?
While the focus is on Gatik’s self-driving technology, plenty of work goes on behind the scenes to secure state approvals for on-road operation.
The second FreightWaves Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Summit will feature leaders in autonomy and all things electrification.
Rusty Rush not only operates more truck dealerships than anyone on the planet, he also knows technology. And he has opinions on just about everything. So, buckle up. It’s Rush hour.
Locomation has an eight-year agreement with Stevens Trucking to operate autonomous relay convoys on four interstate routes.
Kodiak Robotics snagged a strategic investment and is developing an autonomous truck service project with Pilot Co.
Cummins will integrate Gatik’s autonomous vehicle technology with its own drive-by-wire software for use on Isuzu Class 6 FTR box trucks using Cummins’ B6.7 engine.
TuSimple told federal officials about the crash of one of its supervised autonomous trucks and temporarily grounded its fleet. But it neglected to inform its partner, Navistar.
Daimler Truck is exerting greater influence over independent subsidiary Torc Robotics by bringing in its own CEO.
Schneider is joining fleets testing highway autonomy, starting commercial pilots in supervised Aurora Innovation trucks this week.
Kodiak Robotics is taking a simpler approach to mapping highways for autonomy, focusing on connectivity over detail
New leaders, an electrification push and Scania influence mark the first year after the Traton’s $3.7 billion takeover of Navistar.
The Biden administration is launching an advisory panel to identify ways to integrate automation across transportation modes.
The management shakeup at TuSimple has become a full management house cleaning. Hyliion sees early benefits following Cummins’ partnership.
The NHTSA has approved the Einride Pod autonomous vehicle for on-road operation.
The feds released a first-time report aimed at developing a clearer picture of autonomous vehicle safety.
TuSimple co-founder Mo Chen launches Hydron, an autonomous trucking venture that would use hydrogen fuel to achieve zero emissions.
Some free money from California to buy down the cost of electric trucks remains, but you better hurry to apply.
Embark Trucks and BYD demonstrated what using electricity rather than diesel looked like in drayage with an autonomous truck.
Waymo Via will reserve billions of miles of future autonomous trucking routes for digital load matching by Uber Freight.
KBX Logistics is using 26-foot autonomous trucks from Gatik to replace some Class 8 routes in Texas.
Dallas Fort Worth is a tech-forward airport on many levels. Its latest initiative is trialing an autonomous tow vehicle in the cargo area.
Autonomous technology company Gatik will expand operations in Kansas.
In its third deal this year, autonomous driving provider Aurora has an agreement with Covenant to “explore ways to optimize” long-haul operations.
Autonomous trucking startup Plus is making a scaled-back version of its autonomous trucking software available through upfitting.
Gatik founder and CEO Gautam Narang said autonomous middle-mile trucks can replace traditional Class 8 tractor-trailers along fixed, repeatable routes.
Lightning eMotors, which electrifies commercial vehicle chassis, is teaming with Perrone Robotics to offer Level 4 autonomous vehicles for sale.
Is a bigger battery on wheels the best way to make autonomous trucks more efficient? Solo Advanced Vehicle Technologies thinks so.
Volvo will work with DHL Supply Chain to test hub-to-hub autonomous trucking using Class 8 VNL tractors retrofitted by Aurora Innovation.
TuSimple, the autonomous truck developer is delaying its purpose-built driverless truck to 2025 while slowing its roll in other areas.
DHL is talking to customers about sustainability and measuring emissions, DHL Supply Chain’s Jason Gillespie said during this episode of Net-Zero Carbon.
Automated trucks and buses are expected to number 1.2 million annually by 2032 compared with about 1,000 in testing today.
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U.S. Xpress is tripling down on autonomy, adding Kodiak Robotics to pilots with Embark Trucks and TuSimple.
Ever willing to try something new, Werner Enterprises teams aligns with Aurora Innovation on 600-mile supervised autonomous freight runs in Texas.
As robots take over for human drivers, will they raise or lower the risk of tire blowouts that claim dozens of lives in truck crashes every year?
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Gatik CEO Gautam Narang will detail middle-mile autonomy’s role in the future of the supply chain at FreightWaves’ upcoming The Future of Supply Chain conference.
Editor’s note: Corrects location of ride-hailing fleet to Dallas-Fort Worth instead of Arizona Aurora Innovation has added a 600-mile autonomous route between Fort Worth and El Paso, Texas, testing its Aurora Driver Beta 2.0 lane on the middle leg between Atlanta and Los Angeles, one of the nation’s busiest commercial freight thoroughfares. The new-generation Peterbilt […]
Chargepoint will provide electric vehicle charging infrastructure for Gatik customers in the U.S. and Canada.
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Gatik’s Gautam Narang will be an industry keynoter at The Future of Supply Chain event.
At the press conference announcing the deal, the first user of the Locomation technology, Wilson Logistics, gave an update on what it is doing in the autonomous space.
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TuSimple’s stock price has tanked in recent weeks, and a published report says the autonomous truck developer may sell its China business unit.
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Startup Kodiak Robotics is the first to run regular autonomous loads to Oklahoma in a partnership with Ceva Logistics.
The TaxiBot is not an autonomous taxi for city travel. It’s a robot vehicle that pulls aircraft to the runway.
TuSimple’s leadership succession plan was known inside the autonomous trucking startup, but the unexpected timing rattled investors.
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In a century-old manufacturing complex where General Motors once built gears and axles, Waymo manufactures autonomous cars and trucks.
TuSimple claims a “clean bill of health” as a U.S. probe of foreign investment ends with an agreement to guard U.S.-developed technology.
Aurora Innovation is trying to prove it has thought through issues surrounding autonomous trucking as it targets late 2023 to launch its Horizon system.
Waymo Via and C.H. Robinson are the latest dance partners seeking to choreograph autonomous trucking.
FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Opportunities for automation abound over the middle and last miles SPEAKER: Sam Saad, VP of strategic initiatives for Gatik BIO: Saad currently heads up strategic initiatives for Gatik, a company offering AVs for B2B short-haul logistics. He has a 15-year track record of delivering complex projects across diverse sectors. Prior to Gatik, […]
U.S. Xpress, which has deep autonomous trucking ties to TuSimple, adds Aurora as a second partner focused on exploring best driverless routes.
TuSimple says its autonomous trucking software is “feature complete” and it will expand driverless trucking beyond a pilot program.
Outrider is adding autonomously precise backing of trailers to the dock to its range of driverless services in distribution yards.
Self-driving technology startup Waabi has introduced its Waabi World simulator, a technology that company founder Raquel Urtasun said is able to “teach” autonomous vehicles how to drive in a safer manner.
Embark Trucks’ connection with Knight-Swift will lead to the installation of high-autonomy software by the end of 2022.
TuSimple advances its commercialization timetable for driverless trucking and adds intermodal freight for Union Pacific at the Port of Tucson in Arizona.
The roads are mostly mapped for TuSimple to drive autonomously in Texas. Now it is up to commercial property developers to get ready.
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With Aurora Driver 2.0, the self-driving developer plans to field the first robotic ride-hailing minivans along with Class 8 trucks.
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Google-backed Nuro has released its third-generation delivery vehicle, simply called Nuro, and will partner with Kroger to roll it out in Houston.
After years of work, TuSimple engineers and executives silently watched their autonomous semi take its maiden voyage without a driver.
TuSimple achieved its goal of sending a Class 8 truck with no one in the cab on a nighttime run along Interstate 10 in Arizona.
Plus and Iveco lay out a timeline for driver-supervised autonomous trucks followed by fully driverless trucks.
Locomation earned high marks on a third-party environmental impact report conducted by Boundless Impact Research and Analytics last month.
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German shipper and delivery service DHL reserves 100 TuSimple autonomous trucks six weeks after joining Embark Trucks’ partner program.
Kodiak Robotics CEO Don Burnette says asset utilization is the big promise of autonomous trucks now testing mostly in the southwest U.S.
Aurora Innovation acquired Uber’s advanced technology group last year. Now it is piloting autonomous integration with Uber Freight.
Autonomy will ripple strongly through multiple modes, Lee Klaskow said during FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit.
As part of Daimler Truck, Torc Robotics faces less pressure than some startups to get driverless trucks to market.
Less known outside military circles, Robotic Research may pick up what’s left of platooning pioneer Peloton Technologies.
Venture capital fund EQT Ventures is a backer of electric and autonomous vehicle maker Einride, but it is also a supporter of sustainable business models.
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The commercialization of autonomous vehicles is an all-hands-on-deck affair, requiring competitors to collaborate with each other.
Before its two-truck autonomous convoys hit the road in 2022, startup Locomation points to a scientific study validating its approach.
Aurora Technology pledges to be first to take the driver out of an autonomous truck in late 2023, but its freight ambitions are modest at present.
After moving packages for UPS in converted Chrysler Pacificas, Waymo Via is applying its latest autonomous system to Class 8 trucks in Texas.
Ree Automotive has unveiled a blank-canvas autonomous vehicle design to last-mile delivery operations.
Robot trucks have to sense when trouble lurks, such as an impatient motorist passing on the left — or the right — when they are trying to turn.
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Even when everyone agrees, regulations take a year to get approved. And there are detractors to autonomous trucking rulemaking
Intertwining zero emissions with autonomous trucking in California overlooks the benefits of driverless operation, TuSimple’s Jim Mullen says.
Embark Trucks rings the Nasdaq bell to begin public trading Thursday, but early share redemptions in its SPAC merger cut proceeds by $300 million.
“As that system proves out over billions of miles of experience and proves the real safety of the technology, we think that will be a key building block towards fully autonomous trucks,” says Plus COO and co-founder Shawn Kerrigan.
Autonomous trucking software developer Kodiak Robotics raises $125 million in new capital after passing on going public via SPAC.
Serial SPAC creator Hennessy Capital and Plus cancel their merger, likely over Chinese technology regulations that could carry over to U.S. business.
As public trading nears this week, 26-year-old Embark Trucks co-founders Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak focus on lean autonomous trucking.
Autonomous trucks hauling freight for Walmart are running with no driver in the seat in Arkansas, says autonomous vehicle company Gatik.
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Revenue is not the point in TuSimple’s partnership with UPS, which holds the autonomous trucking startup to its third-party shipper standards.
Einride has been running its autonomous freight Pods in Europe since 2019, but founder and CEO Robert Falck has high hopes for the company’s entry to the U.S. “It is such a great challenge and I’m really excited. This U.S. freight transportation community is the most competitive in the world,” he said.
From merger to business combination in less than four months, self-driving startup Aurora Innovation expects to begin public trading on Thursday.
Redeploying drivers to get loads to and from transfer hubs promises huge savings, according to a Ryder System-funded study with Georgia Tech.
In the disruptive world of autonomous trucking, TuSimple says it has to haul freight to prove the technology works.
