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  • New Clean Freight Coalition looks toward realistic zero emission timeline


    Autonomous Trucks

    Trucking news and briefs for Friday, March 24, 2023:Trucking groups launch new Clean Freight CoalitionA group of trucking industry stakeholders on Thursday announced the launch of the Clean Freight Coalition, which aims to promote future cleane...

  • On the road to Autonomy, Qualcomm Drives Progress and Innovation


    Autonomous Trucks

    Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Ride Platform drives innovation en route to fully autonomous vehiclesRapid advancements in technology and a collective love of sci-fi have Americans all revved up for a future driven by fully autonomous vehicles. Uniting n...

  • Ford CEO teases 2025 electric pickup as Millennium Falcon of trucks


    Autonomous Trucks

    Ford on Friday confirmed the project name for its next-generation electric truck: Project T3. Project T3 - future Ford electric pickup projectThe announcement came just before an event scheduled Friday to preview the company’s mammoth BlueOval ...

  • It’s An Electric Train, But Don’t Call It An Electric Train


    Autonomous Trucks

    The $4.5 Million Electric Train Of The FutureParallel contacted CleanTechnica by email with an update this week, and it looks like they put those ARPA-E dollars to good use. To the extent that electric rail vehicles can replace diesel trucks, t...

  • Future of $900B US trucking industry could be decided in California


    Autonomous Trucks

    California already has rules governing self-driving cars and delivery trucks that weigh less than 10,001 pounds. Now, the California Department of Motor Vehicles is gathering information for potential new rules that would let self-driving semi-...

  • Waymo is taking on the task of writing a safety case for the entire AV industry


    Autonomous Vehicle News

    Waymo published a paper today outlining a safety case for autonomous vehicles that the company says should serve as a blueprint for the entire industry. Waymo isn’t the first company to push for the adoption of a broad safety case for AVs. Auro...

  • Researchers helping autonomous vehicles learn to react to bad drivers, adverse conditions


    Autonomous Vehicle News

    Autonomous vehicles are very much a part of our transportation future. The engineers at the autonomous vehicle campus at MCity are using a new virtual testing environment. He says now these AVs can learn from these simulated situations and adve...

  • Dense reinforcement learning for safety validation of autonomous vehicles


    Autonomous Vehicle News

    One critical bottleneck that impedes the development and deployment of autonomous vehicles is the prohibitively high economic and time costs required to validate their safety in a naturalistic driving environment, owing to the rarity of safety-...