Autonomous Trucks
Autonomous truck startup company Locomation has laid off most of its staff as it winds down operations, the second autonomous vehicle outfit in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area to close in four months. Shuttering the two companies leaves Aurora Innovations Inc., which occupies 590,000 square feet of space at its corporate headquarters in the Strip District, as the biggest remaining autonomous driving company left in Pittsburgh. Aurora has said it plans to launch autonomous driving trucks in late 2024. Finch Fulton, Locomation vice president of policy and strategy, told the Pittsburgh Business Times, “Obviously, we’re super disappointed; we do feel like we had all the right pieces in place. Locomation, a Carnegie Mellon University spinout, was started in 2018 by five co-founders, including brothers CEO Çetin Meriçli and CTO Tekin Meriçli.