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  • Waymo Via to Focus on Ride-Hailing Over Autonomous Trucking


    Autonomous Trucks

    Waymo, the self-driving unit owned by Alphabet Inc., is slowing the development of autonomous trucking that’s being done by its Via subsidiary. “With our decision to focus on ride-hailing, we’ll push back the timeline on our commercial and oper...

  • How to Maximize Trailer Cargo Space [Video]


    Autonomous Trucks

    In this video, you'll learn how Kinedyne can help you increase the carrying capacity for trailers in your fleet. This episode of HDT's Leadership Insights is produced in partnership with, and sponsored by, Kinedyne. There are only so many squar...

  • Congress Urged to Revive Long-stalled Debate About Regulating Self-driving Vehicles


    Autonomous Trucks

    Currently AV manufacturers can deploy a maximum of 2,500 self-driving vehicles for testing, provided they have permission from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. AV advocates have complained that the limits represent a bottlene...

  • Waymo Halts Autonomous Truck Work To Focus On Self-Driving Taxis


    Autonomous Trucks

    Waymo Halts Autonomous Truck Work To Focus On Self-Driving TaxisWaymo has been making big strides in the autonomous trucking industry over the past few years, but expect that momentum to slow down for the time being. Instead, the Alphabet Inc. ...

  • Congress urged to revive long-stalled debate about regulating self-driving vehicles


    Autonomous Trucks

    Currently AV manufacturers can deploy a maximum of 2,500 self-driving vehicles for testing, provided they have permission from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. AV advocates have complained that the limits represent a bottlene...

  • Waymo Via backs away from autonomous trucking


    Autonomous Trucks

    Alphabet Inc. is indefinitely delaying most work on by its Waymo Via autonomous trucking unit to focus efforts on robot-driven passenger cars for ride hailing. Waymo Via is the latest to head to the sidelines in a shrinking field of autonomous ...

  • Waymo is scaling back its self-driving truck ambitions


    Autonomous Trucks

    Waymo is pausing its efforts to develop autonomous truck technology to refocus on ridehailing services instead. Waymo’s trucking unit, also known as Waymo Via, sat alongside its Waymo One robotaxi division. But the news seemed especially bad fo...

  • Waymo puts driverless truck program on hold


    Autonomous Trucks

    "Our goal is to set our company on a solid path of value creation by focusing on achieving commercial success for our ride-hailing business in the near term. We continue to see a significant future commercial opportunity for our trucking soluti...