That's for good reason, according to Waslander, who says running autonomous cars in the snow comes with all kinds of extra challenges.
Autonomous cars rely on cameras, radar and lidar systems — which map the 3D environment using light — to situate themselves.
Adverse weather conditions can pose a challenge for all of those systems, says Krzysztof Czarnecki, an engineering professor at the University of Waterloo.
What's needed are engineering solutions, including more data gathered by driving cars in poor weather which the Waymo system can be trained on.
Aside from the data, Waymo uses heaters and mini windshield wipers to keep its cameras clear and sensors ice-free.
Oct 17, 2026 · via cbc.ca
The job cuts in the Pilbara come as unemployment continues to rise nationwide.
The state Labor government tacitly endorsed the job cuts and signalled its commitment to ensuring they go smoothly.
BHP workers cannot defend their jobs through appeals to the company’s “Australian values.”
Recent cuts include: Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Iron Ore cut 300–500 jobs across its Pilbara operations in June.
BHP and other mining workers need to build rank-and-file committees, democratically controlled by workers themselves and independent of the unions.
Oct 17, 2026 · via wsws.org
The proposal, from New Orleans City Council President JP Morrell, represents the first city effort to regulate robotaxi companies.
"You can't give them an advantage simply because they're a new technology,” Morrell said of the robotaxis.
But Waymo, a California-based self-driving vehicle company, has spent a year in New Orleans already, putting human test-drivers behind the wheel of its autonomous cars in preparation for its launch.
But he’s “pretty confident” the city can regulate robotaxis, just like it regulates Ubers, Lyfts and regular taxicabs.
The City Council may not have the authority to bar Waymo from the streets, Morrell added.
Oct 16, 2026 · via nola.com
What new or improved trucking product caught your attention this year?
Nominations are now open for HDT’s 2027 Top 20 Products Awards, and the deadline is November 9, 2026.
HDT’s editors review new products throughout the year, but we don’t want to overlook a good candidate.
We welcome nominations from fleet managers, suppliers, dealers, and manufacturers — including companies nominating their own products.
Winners will be featured in HDT’s digital and magazine coverage and receive a display trophy and the right to use the Top 20 Products logo in their promotions.
Oct 16, 2026 · via truckinginfo.com
Autonomous Solutions, Inc., or ASI, will expand its footprint and advance autonomous technology testing in the Alliance area of Fort Worth.
ASI tests its equipment at the Alliance Test Center, located north of SH 114.
According to previous reporting, TuSimple brought self-driving semitrucks to the area in 2022 and TORC opened its autonomous truck hub in 2025.
In November 2025, the Alliance Logistics District was created, a partnership among Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, Hillwood, a real estate development company, and the city of Fort Worth.
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Oct 16, 2026 · via communityimpact.com
New leadership, industry challenges and emerging technologies will take center stage during this year’s Management Conference & Exhibition, Oct. 17-20.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Trucking industry leaders will gather in Charlotte Oct. 17-20 for the American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) 2026 Management Conference & Exhibition (MCE), featuring discussions on freight markets, regulatory priorities, emerging technologies and the challenges facing motor carriers.
Colson, currently president and CEO of the Alabama Trucking Association, will officially assume his new role Dec. 1.
The conference will also recognize industry achievements, including honors for professional drivers, safety leaders and trucking organizations.
Registration information Registration remains available at mce.trucking.org/register, with rates varying by membership status.
Oct 16, 2026 · via thetrucker.com
Volvo Cars is expanding its partnership with NVIDIA to develop advanced automated driving technology.
Volvo’s pioneering safety knowledge will guide the technology, while the NVIDIA Hyperion sensor and compute architecture will power it.
The feature will debut in a next-generation Volvo car as part of the company’s recently announced largest-ever product push.
A blend of safety expertise and AI Volvo Cars will combine its vehicle safety systems and engineering expertise with NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing technologies.
What the leaders say Håkan Samuelsson, president and CEO of Volvo Cars, believes the brand’s heritage gives it a distinct advantage.
Oct 16, 2026 · via fleetpoint.org
Driverless Trucks Are Already Carrying Freight on American Highways In April 2025, Aurora began commercial driverless trucking operations between Dallas and Houston, Texas.
Who Can Be Held Responsible for a Driverless Truck Accident?
In its automated truck rulemaking initiative, FMCSA sought information about regulatory changes needed for the safe introduction of automated commercial vehicles.
A driverless truck is still owned, maintained and operated through decisions made by companies and people.
As commercial driverless trucking expands, courts and regulators will continue addressing questions that traditional trucking law never had to confront directly.
Oct 16, 2026 · via freedomforallamericans.org
req’d) Cass Transportation Index Report September 2026 It’s Not Just Diesel: Why Trucking Costs Keep Rising The rise in diesel prices continues to dominate the headlines.
“As a result, J.B. Hunt is turning to price increases to recoup costs, executives said on an [October 15] analyst call.”
J.B. Hunt is not alone in experiencing these cost increases.
Excluding fuel, costs increased 4.2%, outpacing general inflation.
They should prepare for higher transportation rates in 2027, potentially significantly higher in some segments.
Oct 16, 2026 · via talkinglogistics.com
For much of its history, the United States leaned toward the latter.
Historian Merritt Roe Smith catalogs that era’s optimism in book titles like Eighty Years’ Progress of the United States and Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century.
Meanwhile, in the United States, laws such as Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act, often considered the country’s most stringent biometric privacy law, constrain deployment.
While America’s aging grid holds back expansion, between 2022 and 2025, China added capacity equivalent to that of industrial power sources across the entire United States.
2025 marked the fourth consecutive year that China’s State Council approved 10 or more reactors.
Oct 15, 2026 · via policyarena.org
A truck without a driver is a prerequisite for deployment of Level 4 or 5 autonomous trucks, but the conundrum of how to alert fellow motorists before a support vehicle arrives when a problem arises posed an existential question for autonomous trucking companies.
“This decision underscores the government’s recognition of the immense economic and community benefits of autonomous trucking.
The green light for beacons rather than triangles comes as Aurora and its peers ready for a pivotal year for autonomous trucking in 2027.
Meanwhile, Aurora’s partner, Volvo Autonomous Solutions, as well as autonomous trucking rivals, such as Waabi, PlusAI and Torc Robotics, are set to ramp up operations to commercial scale in 2027.
Waabi Chief Operating Officer Lior Ron told TT on Oct. 14 that the FMCSA decision was a pivotal step for the autonomous trucking sector.
Oct 15, 2026 · via ttnews.com
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Oct 15, 2026 · via finance.yahoo.com
The consortium will build services using NVIDIA Nemotron open models, which allow researchers to customize and deploy their models in a secure environment.
Built on NVIDIA Nemotron open models and distributed infrastructure, it uses company data and low-latency networking to deliver fast, context-aware responses.
The Stockholm-based startup is post-training NVIDIA Nemotron open models to scale patent analysis from a single patent to entire portfolios — work that was previously out of reach.
Agaton, a platform that analyzes customer conversations in real time, is using NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning to speed up Revenue Mining solution on live sales calls.
Quantum Meets Accelerated Computing Finally, Swedish companies are advancing quantum research using NVIDIA’s quantum computing platform.
Oct 15, 2026 · via blogs.nvidia.com
Autonomous trucks are moving past theory and onto the road, but what do fleet buyers need to watch for next?
What is the actual timeline and business case for autonomous trucks?
FleetOwner speaks with ACT Research analysts Ann Randal and Lydia Vieth to discuss where autonomous vehicle deployment stands today, how more direct routing is replacing transfer hubs, and what the path forward looks like for commercial transportation.
Oct 15, 2026 · via fleetowner.com
“You’re the first people in the world to see these VNX trucks,” said John Moore, product marketing manager for vocational vehicles at Volvo Trucks North America.
There’s a big difference between remotely piloting trucks at five mph on job sites and moving them at 60 mph down Texas highways, but Volvo is doing both.
Nils Jaeger, president of Volvo Autonomous Solutions, told Autoweek, “We will be on the Texas roads in Q1 of 2027 without safety drivers.
Arizona is next after Texas, with driverless operations slated to start in the second half of 2027.
Volvo also has VNX-adjacent autonomous vehicles working in Norway, where they’ve hauled more than a million tons of quarried limestone.
Oct 14, 2026 · via autoweek.com
Trucking news and briefs for Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026: $1M in liquid meth seized from bobtail’s fuel tanks.
Drug-smuggling truck stopped in California San Diego Sector U.S. Border Patrol agents recently stopped a smuggling attempt of hard narcotics along Interstate 15.
The truck was seized by the U.S. Border Patrol.
The companies expect to expand the collaboration to additional lanes in Charger’s network over time as Charger integrates the Kodiak Driver into its fleet.
The Dallas–Laredo lane extends the Kodiak Driver into a new corridor, and gives both companies the operating foundation we need to scale driverless service."
Oct 14, 2026 · via overdriveonline.com
"The all-new Volvo VNX is the toughest, safest, most connected, and most powerful vocational truck we have ever built.
Three Configurations of the Volvo VNX Ready for a variety of roles, the Volvo VNX is available in three configurations.
The VNX 440 sleeper configuration is also available as a tractor or a straight truck VNX 640 with a 62-inch midroof sleeper.
Volvo Trucks showcased the VNX 640 for its heavy-haul capability at the Shippensburg event, hauling one of Volvo Construction’s largest excavators.
It introduced the VNX vocational truck in 2013 and an updated version of the VNX in 2018.
Oct 14, 2026 · via truckinginfo.com
Waabi and Warrior Logistics announced a commercial partnership Wednesday to move routine customer freight on Waabi Driver-powered autonomous trucks between Dallas and Houston.
Routes completed by the autonomous trucks since then have produced 100% on-time pickup and delivery and zero safety incidents, according to Waabi.
Neither company disclosed how many Waabi trucks Warrior runs or how many loads they have hauled.
It is using the Waabi trucks to add capacity and raise utilization across that broader fleet as customer demand grows.
That mix lets Warrior take on more freight and keep its drivers on the lanes they want to run, he said.
Oct 14, 2026 · via finance.yahoo.com
Last week, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration gave a big green light to driverless trucking companies.
FMCSA’s decision gives Aurora Innovation and other autonomous companies an exemption that lasts through Oct. 7, 2031.
Just a few weeks before FMCSA’s exemption announcement became official, Aurora said it was going to end 2026 with 200 driverless trucks in its operation.
By 2030, Aurora expects to have 30,000 driverless trucks operating along U.S. highways.
Over the past four years, Kodiak delivered more than 1,300 autonomous loads for IKEA but with a “safety observer” aboard.
Oct 14, 2026 · via landline.media
Venti Technologies plans to launch a driver-out autonomous truck fleet at a U.S. intermodal rail yard in 2026.
The Venti autonomous truck fleet will operate without dedicated lanes or terminal modifications, according to the company.
Venti said the deployment will be the first autonomous truck fleet of its kind at a U.S. intermodal rail yard.
“America’s supply chain is about to get its first truly autonomous fleet,” said Heidi Wyle, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Venti Technologies.
The Venti autonomous truck fleet planned for the U.S. will extend that technology into railroad intermodal operations.
Oct 14, 2026 · via fleetequipmentmag.com