Autonomous Trucks
— During the OUTLOOK 69, Market Vitals seminar, presented Aug. 22-24 by ACT Research, many attendees expected answers about autonomous trucks. Steve Tam, a vice president and analysts for ACT, noted that the level of investment in autonomous vehicles has slowed recently. He pointed out that Waymo, Google’s autonomous vehicle offering, has abandoned its work on autonomous trucks to focus on driverless taxis. TuSimple, another developer of autonomous technology, announced it is trying to sell its U.S. operations and concentrate on its products in China. That’s fine during testing, but in the long run, it negates the purpose of having an autonomous vehicle to begin with.