After numerous rides in autonomous trucks monitored by safety drivers in case of a mishap, I found it almost surreal to climb into Aurora Innovation’s Class 8 driverless truck, buckle […]
The arcade game Whac-A-Mole describes state-by-state approach to rules of the driverless road while 50-state solution appears far off.
WattEV continues to roll up a lion’s share of federal infrastructure grants as it plots electric charging corridors
Volvo Trucks North America revealed a 90% new VNL over-the-road truck that promises up to 10% better fuel efficiency.
Ryder System is leasing space at a Houston maintenance facility to Kodiak Robotics for driverless truck operations.
Hydrogen was a big topic through the mobility and transportation space at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Kodiak Robotics showed its 6th-generation autonomous truck that will begin hauling freight without a driver in Texas later this year.
Nikola is finally putting its fuel cell electric truck in the hands of retail customers like Bill Hall of Coyote Container.
Three companies departed autonomous trucking in 2023 as Aurora Innovation, Kodiak Robotics and Torc Robotics staked leadership claims.
Uber Freight has more than 100 shipper companies lined up to run autonomous freight, but the capacity just doesn’t exist yet.
Who is leading, following, emerging or out of the game in autonomous trucking? Here’s an assessment of shifts among the players.
Aurora Innovation opened its Interstate 45 autonomous trucking route between Dallas and Houston as unease and criticism grow.
Startup software developer Waabi, a late entry to autonomous trucking, has a 10-year deal to haul on the Uber Freight network.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pressed the American Trucking Associations and tech companies over job and safety concerns associated with driverless trucks.
The timing in promoting its growing patent portfolio could suggest TuSimple is trying to find a buyer for its U.S. business.
Amid a contraction of autonomous trucking firms, the founders of self-driving startup Argo AI are launching a driverless trucking startup.
The governor of California appears to favor supporting autonomous trucking technology over labor objections.
Could Kodiak leverage some of the work Navistar has in on a redundant chassis for a Class 8 autonomous truck?
Investor confidence coincidentally clashes with an executive’s stock sales at autonomous trucking developer.
The autonomous industry’s losing streak is growing as Teamsters-backed legislation passes committee after committee in California.
Capital markets that have been freezing out mobility startups may be thawing with Aurora Innovation raising $820 million in new funding.
Losers among transportation startups are rapidly being defined, It will take longer to determine the winners.
After originally working with TuSimple, Loadsmith picks Kodiak Robotics for autonomous driving systems.
School buses qualify for a lot of incentives to go electric, but are the vouchers and grants enough to make a difference?
Kodiak Robotics bought a Peterbilt Model 579EV to marry its autonomous system with electric propulsion. It is using the truck in testing.
Aurora Innovation and Continental AG are partnering to build the Aurora Driver autonomous hardware to scale for the U.S. in 2027
Driverless trucks have special needs that only humans can perform at terminals where they will drop and hook loads.
Trucking safety advocates are at odds with corporate-backed attempts at implementing a roadside safety exemption for autonomous trucks. For those unaware, current regulations require drivers to use three emergency reflective triangles, or at least six fusees or three liquid-burning road flares, if they stop on the road for reasons other than traffic.
Truck safety advocates and labor are at odds with big business over a request to loosen regulations for driverless trucks.
Kodiak Robotics was shooting for easier maintenance of its autonomous trucks but it made them appear more normal in the process.
Aurora Innovation says being “feature complete” on its autonomous truck software puts it on target for driverless runs in 2024.
TuSimple plans driverless trucking on a commercial basis in Arizona next year – without a manufacturing partner.
Federal guidance from 2019 suggested driverless trucks could skip electronic logging devices. Will that hold up?
Nikola customers will test Plus autonomy on the startup’s battery and fuel cell electric trucks this year and make it standard in 2024.
As valuations of SPAC-backed startups plummet, one autonomous trucking developer that avoided the FOMO and stayed private is thriving.
It is pretty much acknowledged across the trucking industry that a consolidation of players in autonomous trucking is coming.
Autonomous trucking language can be a little off-putting to the uninitiated. One exception may be the term “feature complete.”
From a Netflix-worthy docudrama at TuSimple to dueling technology announcements, autonomous trucking took steps toward commercialization.
Uber Freight and Volvo Autonomous Solutions are stressing patience over hype in working to digitally schedule loads for the truckmaker’s one-stop shop for all things autonomy.
The breakup with Navistar is a big deal for autonomous truck developer TuSimple, but its balance sheet could limit reputational damage.
The approach of Cummins Inc. to hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines is very different from how and when it talks about most of its products.
Separar los problemas de la comercialización de camiones autónomos es cada vez más difícil
The Wall Street Journal reports multiple federal probes of TuSimple’s China dealings after a watchdog set up oversight in February.
Driver-facing cameras are seen as intrusive and an invasion of privacy in the truck-driving community. Yet fleets are rapidly adopting them.
Shareholder letters and earnings call transcripts don’t qualify as page-turning vacation reading. But they say a lot.
Los recorridos en Texas con camiones supervisados para el gigante de las flotas comienzan esta semana
Schneider is joining fleets testing highway autonomy, starting commercial pilots in supervised Aurora Innovation trucks this week.
Waymo Via will reserve billions of miles of future autonomous trucking routes for digital load matching by Uber Freight.
Australia’s Tritium is making a charge in U.S. market with a move into direct current fast charging for electric trucks.
In its third deal this year, autonomous driving provider Aurora has an agreement with Covenant to “explore ways to optimize” long-haul operations.
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.
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Con un tercer socio, el transportista apuesta por la tecnología para paliar la escasez de conductores
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?
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 […]
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Startup Kodiak Robotics is the first to run regular autonomous loads to Oklahoma in a partnership with Ceva Logistics.
Aurora Innovation is trying to prove it has thought through issues surrounding autonomous trucking as it targets late 2023 to launch its Horizon system.
U.S. Xpress, which has deep autonomous trucking ties to TuSimple, adds Aurora as a second partner focused on exploring best driverless routes.
With Aurora Driver 2.0, the self-driving developer plans to field the first robotic ride-hailing minivans along with Class 8 trucks.
German shipper and delivery service DHL reserves 100 TuSimple autonomous trucks six weeks after joining Embark Trucks’ partner program.
Aurora Innovation acquired Uber’s advanced technology group last year. Now it is piloting autonomous integration with Uber Freight.
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Hedge funds and retail investors led the takeoff in transportation SPACs that are barely staying aloft. Guess who gets the better end of that deal?
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.
Embark Trucks rings the Nasdaq bell to begin public trading Thursday, but early share redemptions in its SPAC merger cut proceeds by $300 million.
Autonomous trucking software developer Kodiak Robotics raises $125 million in new capital after passing on going public via SPAC.
As public trading nears this week, 26-year-old Embark Trucks co-founders Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak focus on lean autonomous trucking.
From merger to business combination in less than four months, self-driving startup Aurora Innovation expects to begin public trading on Thursday.
Chinese investment scrutiny and SPAC renegotiation suggest going public may not happen for autonomous trucking software maker Plus.
Aurora Innovation and Embark Trucks will soon join TuSimple Holdings as stocks betting on the future of driverless trucks.
Waymo autonomous truck engineering lead Boris Sofman makes the case that a decade of self-driving car efforts blazed the path to driverless trucks.
The Plus supervised autonomy system differs Level 4 testing by competitors, but it puts some automated driving functions within reach of fleets faster.
FedEx integrates the Aurora Driver autonomous system on PACCAR trucks into its logistics operations on Dallas-to-Houston round trips.
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The fusion of Aurora Driver with Uber ATG autonomous software brings the technology developer closer to commercialization.
Autonomous truck software developer Embark Trucks is using Nvidia’s system on a chip for its plug-and-play autonomous system.
Peterbilt, Kenworth and DAF Trucks are sold out globally for 2021 as the global semiconductor shortage leaves 6,500 trucks awaiting parts.
Experiencing the view from the passenger seat of a PlusDrive-equipped truck navigating a northern California rush hour.
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Aurora Innovation gets a $10.6 billion enterprise value, the second highest of four autonomous driving software developers seeking to go public.
Professional drivers help teach their robotic successors while evangelizing for the technology among truckers who feel threatened.
Embark Trucks plans to go public at a $5.16 billion valuation with sponsorship by the special purpose acquisition company that backed Lion Electric.
The blank-check route to going public is losing steam, but Aurora Innovation may take the plunge in a SPAC led by one of its investors.
HP is shipping a weekly load of computer printers on supervised robot semis from Embark Trucks, which is growing its partner network.
Self-driving truck software maker Plus signed its long-rumored SPAC with $500 million cash and $3.3 billion valuation expected in Q3.
Kodiak Robotics claims the best autonomous trucking software. But the startup trails the sector’s big names in both money and partners.
With TuSimple going public by IPO, a new report says rival autonomous trucking software developer Plus will soon follow via SPAC.
As the trucking industry rebuilds toward meeting replacement demand, PACCAR expects new products will help it continue gaining market share.
Texas grows as locus for autonomous truck testing as Aurora Innovation plans to begin Class 8 testing in Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Amazon is looking to buy Zoox, a self-driving startup that seeks to create a fleet of electrified robo-taxis.
Relationships between OEMs and tech giants get complicated as the self-driving and mobility race heats up.
The news comes days after its parent company nixed a partnership with Groupe Renault.
Aurora Innovation plans to buy Montana-based Blackmore, a company that develops light detection and ranging radar (lidar) technology for self-driving vehicles. The acquisition comes several months after Aurora’s $530 million […]
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