Autonomous Vehicle News
Where truck drivers at the wheels of traditional trucks rely on their senses, it’s the autonomous vehicle’s technology that reads surroundings using tools like cameras, radar, and the bouncing lasers of LiDAR. Artificial intelligence (AI) pulls it all together, processes the information, and decides exactly how to respond. AI ‘superpowers’ in truckingWhile many AI-related discussions in the trucking industry focus on autonomous vehicles, the technology has already made inroads into other industry applications. And it’s giving the guard at the yard gate, office employees, and terminal managers a futuristic makeover in the process. Artificial intelligence doesn’t replace humans or take away jobs, says Jessica Kim, head of marketing for Pitstop, which provides predictive fleet maintenance software.