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Battery on wheels: Startup pushes new way to power autonomous trucks
Is a bigger battery on wheels the best way to make autonomous trucks more efficient? Solo Advanced Vehicle Technologies thinks so.
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Truck Tech: SPAC ‘stonks’ edition
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
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Loaded and Rolling: Driver as a service and the dangers of dwell
Driver as a service: J.B. Hunt becomes Waymo’s first self-driving freight customer, Commentary: The dangers of dwell, Market update: Outbound tender rejections decline amid rising…
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Aurora applying robot truck lessons to robotaxis that once led driverless parade
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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F3 demos: FreightTech provides competitive advantage
Company demos presented during FreightWaves’ F3 Virtual Experience show how automation can provide cost and time savings.
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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: Autonomous prediction edition
Truck Talk is a weekly newsletter that offers perspective and context on news in the trucking industry.
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PACCAR, Volvo invest in self-driving tech company Aurora’s $10.6B SPAC
Aurora Innovation gets a $10.6 billion enterprise value, the second highest of four autonomous driving software developers seeking to go public.
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Truck Talk No. 26: Labor pains edition
Truck Talk is a weekly newsletter offering perspective and context on happenings in the trucking industry.
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Questioning new federal crash data requirements
NHTSA’s new standing order on autonomous truck crash data is too blunt an instrument, according to a group representing the self-driving vehicle sector.
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