Autonomous trucks

Embark Trucks is expanding into several key markets to create a coast-to-coast autonomous trucking network of transfer locations.

A permanent replacement for TuSimple CEO Xiaodi Hou is expected soon as the company chairman and the ousted founder exchange barbs.

America’s top truck safety regulator provides insight into what will be important at her federal agency as she closes in on a year in the driver’s seat.

FMCSA recruits truck drivers

After years of collaboration, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has figured out how to inspect autonomous trucks for safe operation.

Federal regulators will use a simulator experiment to assess driver distraction in automated trucks.

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?

Thomas Wasson and Shawn Kerrigan, co-founder of Plus, discussed the company’s future strategy at FreightWaves’ virtual Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Summit on Wednesday.

FreightWaves’ Alan Adler sits down with the co-founder and CEO of Kodiak Technologies to discuss autonomy in trucking.

Uber Freight executive Olivia Hu joins chat about the advancement of the autonomous trucking industry during FreightWaves’ Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Summit.

ACT Research’s Ann Rundle discusses policy implications for autonomous and electric trucks at FreightWaves’ one-day summit.

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.

Pitney Bowes is the second major customer in Texas to deploy Gatik’s Class 6 autonomous trucks.

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 CEO Xiaodi Hou responded to a federal safety investigation that raised concerns about a potential setback to its driverless truck technology.

With a long list of heavy-hitting customers that include Walmart, Loblaw and most recently Georgia-Pacific, Gatik has demonstrated that commercially successful autonomous delivery is happening first in a constrained environment, on fixed, repeatable short-haul routes.

Kodiak Robotics is taking a simpler approach to mapping highways for autonomy, focusing on connectivity over detail

The management shakeup at TuSimple has become a full management house cleaning. Hyliion sees early benefits following Cummins’ partnership.

The company marked its progress by submitting its Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment to the U.S. Department of Transportation for public disclosure on how Locomation is addressing safety and its readiness for public road testing.