Autonomous Trucks
Volvo is building an autonomous freight network that will initially run in Texas from Houston to Dallas and Dallas-Fort Worth to El Paso. Volvo’s service, for instance, could be used for additional capacity, keeping drivers closer to home or improving road safety, according to Nils Jaeger, president of Volvo Autonomous Solutions. Accordingly, the initiative in Texas is slated to shift how drivers work, among other changes. Ascend drivers will then pick up the goods at another hub for delivery to their destination. “Bringing a safe Level 4 autonomous truck to market is by no means a simple task,” Torc CEO Peter Vaughan Schmidt said last October.