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Autonomous Vehicles
Selling autonomy: Practical realities meet fully robotic aspirations
Does the search for a completely safe driverless truck mean that everything should wait for perfection? David Liu doesn’t think so.
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Autonomous Vehicles
Ryder storms deeper into trucking autonomy in tie-up with Waymo Via
Fleet and logistics provider Ryder System Inc. follows TuSimple deal with a partnership with Waymo Via.
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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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More than babysitters: Safety drivers keep robot trucks from running into trouble
Professional drivers help teach their robotic successors while evangelizing for the technology among truckers who feel threatened.
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Autonomous Vehicles
Truck Talk: Autonomous patent edition
Truck Talk is a weekly newsletter offering perspective and context on happenings in the heavy-duty and commercial trucking sector.
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Autonomous Vehicles
Embark Trucks: Autonomous testing pioneer latest to join SPAC parade
Embark Trucks plans to go public at a $5.16 billion valuation with sponsorship by the special purpose acquisition company that backed Lion Electric.
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News
Waymo hauls in $2.5B from current investors for autonomous expansion
Outside funding totals nearly $5 billion as Waymo’s expenses rise to expand driverless ride hailing and high-autonomy trucking software.
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Autonomous Vehicles
J.B. Hunt will test Waymo Via autonomous trucks in Texas
J.B. Hunt Transport Services is the latest fleet to test autonomous trucking software in Texas, hauling loads in human-supervised robot trucks from Waymo Via.
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Truck Talk: Making the case edition
Truck Talk is a weekly newsletter that brings perspective and context to trends and issues in the trucking industry.
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Autonomous Vehicles
Plus scores SPAC deal as Wall Street sizes up TuSimple prospects
Self-driving truck software maker Plus signed its long-rumored SPAC with $500 million cash and $3.3 billion valuation expected in Q3.
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