Autonomous Trucks
Self-driving truck company Embark Technology is shutting down. This is the second recent major failure of autonomous technology company. Rodrigues cited an inability to raise capital and delays in "the prospect of scaled commercial deployment" of autonomous trucking for the closure. Embark and other self-driving technology companies have worked on a business model where human drivers would shuttle freight to highway adjacent hubs. An autonomous truck would then drive the freight hundreds of miles on a digitally mapped interstate to another hub, where a human would again take the wheel for delivery.