Driverless trucks could eventually carry freight between Kazakhstan and China, with the two countries planning to test them on international routes.
The Kazakhstan Road Research Institute (KazdorNII) and Chinese technology company China TransInfo Group signed an agreement in Astana on October 16 to develop the trials and establish a joint center for autonomous transport.
At the NEW SILK WAY transport forum in Astana, China TransInfo Group signed a separate memorandum with Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Transport on cooperation in autonomous vehicle technologies.
Kazakhstan and China also launched the Smart Customs project at the Bakhty–Pokitu border crossing in 2025, with plans to use driverless electric shuttles to transport cargo between the two countries.
The new initiative envisages testing autonomous trucks on an international road route rather than limiting their operation to border infrastructure.
Oct 23, 2026 · via timesca.com
The highway driving part, the long, boring, repetitive part, works well enough that trucks run it all day.
In its piece on the future of trucking, NPR said Aurora Innovation was operating autonomous trucks with observers in the cab while transporting cargo.
Competitive Comparison: Trucks, Robotaxis and Retrofits Autonomous trucks and robotaxis share sensors and software ideas but face different economics.
In a Logistics Report dated October 19, 2026, the Journal described autonomous trucks racking up miles on Interstate 45 between Dallas and Houston.
Can autonomous trucks back up?
Oct 23, 2026 · via shattered.io
Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, and other partners are collaborating with Nvidia to advance self-driving technology in Europe.Nvidia presented its initiatives at the GTC event in Berlin, highlighting projects aimed at developing robotaxis, vans, and freight trucks.
Self-driving updates The Nvidia Hyperion includes hardware and software options for automakers, streamlining the integration of autonomous systems.
Bolt intends to implement Nvidia’s Alpamayo Stack for its European robotaxi fleet, beginning with Lucid vehicles built on the Hyperion platform.
Mercedes-Benz works towards Level 3 and Level 4 driving systems using Hyperion and Alpamayo.
Nvidia’s Halos Safe system aims to ensure high safety standards in robotaxis by linking simulation, software, and field tests.
Oct 23, 2026 · via tickernews.co
GM plans to extend “eyes-off” autonomous highway driving beyond its EV lineup to its gas-powered vehicles, including full-size SUVs and light-duty pickups, in upcoming years, according to a press release.
The automaker announced last year that it would launch “eyes-off” autonomous highway driving on its Cadillac ESCALADE IQ in 2028.
“Our vision is to build vehicles that can drive themselves or their occupants anywhere they need to be,” the release states.
The company’s engineering teams are combining real-world data collection with frontier AI and machine learning tools, the release states.
GM’s stack drives more than 3 billion virtual miles daily, the release states.
Oct 23, 2026 · via repairerdrivennews.com
What Alpamayo is built to do Nvidia introduced the Alpamayo family at CES in January.
The Alpamayo models “serve as large-scale teacher models” that developers fine-tune and distill into smaller models for their own driving systems, Nvidia said.
Its outputs are compared against Einride’s driving planner and human driver performance while existing safety systems stay in full control.
PlusAI also adapting Alpamayo for trucks Einride said it plans to be the first trucking company to deploy Alpamayo on Hyperion.
PlusAI said in March it is adapting Alpamayo for heavy-duty trucking on Level 4 trucks built on Nvidia’s DRIVE AGX Hyperion platform.
Oct 22, 2026 · via freightwaves.com
Dive Brief: Volvo Autonomous Solutions and tech partner Waabi have launched their first autonomous customer operation in Texas for freight forwarder Warp, according to an Oct. 5 press release.
Dive Insight: The start of an autonomous shipping lane is a milestone for the partnership between Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Waabi that began in 2023.
The collaboration with Warp shows how quickly autonomous technology can adapt to new customers and complex operations, Nils Jaeger, president of Volvo Autonomous Solutions, said in the release.
While Jaeger announced during an investor event in June that Volvo Autonomous Solutions would remove safety drivers and go fully autonomous on U.S. highways in Q1 2027, the lane launch with Warp and tech partner Waabi will not be part of that, Ceren Wende, a spokesperson for Volvo Autonomous Solutions said in an email to Trucking Dive.
Wende said there is no timeline for removing the safety observer from the trucks used on the lane for Warp.
Oct 22, 2026 · via truckingdive.com
Einride AB (Nasdaq: ENRD) said on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, that it is broadening its partnership with NVIDIA by testing the chipmaker’s AI reasoning model, Alpamayo, inside its autonomous driving system, Einride Driver.
According to NVIDIA, Einride is using Halos, Alpamayo and Cosmos together to develop and validate its next-generation driving system.
Why Hyperion Is the Platform Underneath Everything NVIDIA Hyperion is the vehicle-computing and autonomous-driving development platform both companies refer to throughout Wednesday’s announcements.
Einride said it is expanding its partnership with NVIDIA to evaluate NVIDIA’s Alpamayo AI reasoning driving model inside its autonomous driving system, Einride Driver, running on NVIDIA’s Hyperion platform.
Einride says it plans to be the first trucking company to deploy Alpamayo on NVIDIA’s Hyperion platform.
Oct 21, 2026 · via shattered.io
The Department of Transportation has approved a five-year, NAM-supported exemption for Aurora and other autonomous trucking companies from regulations that require drivers to place warning signals around stopped trucks (Reuters, subscription).
Companies seeking to use the waiver must notify the DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and report any crashes in which warning beacons were activated or should have been activated.
“The exemption request presents a practical opportunity to improve safety while accommodating the operational realities of autonomous commercial vehicles,” the NAM said in May.
“The proposed warning beacons … offer a reasonable alternative [to warning triangles] that provides approaching motorists with clear and immediate visibility of a stopped vehicle while reducing the need for unnecessary roadside exposure.”
Citing studies from Aurora and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, the NAM said warning beacons have been shown to perform similarly to traditional triangles and fusees.
Oct 21, 2026 · via nam.org
It also poses a harder financial test: commercial revenue stays small while development and operating costs need heavy funding.
The question is whether driverless freight can become an economic business before shareholders face another demanding round of financing.
Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ:AUR)'s July results announcement described a new driverless fleet using International LT vehicles and second-generation hardware.
Revenue Has Begun, but the Gap Remains Large Aurora's second-quarter shareholder letter reported $2 million in revenue from driverless and vehicle-operator-supervised commercial loads.
Aurora's operating progress makes it worth watching, but the evidence does not yet support a broad buying recommendation.
Oct 21, 2026 · via finance.yahoo.com
Oct 21 : Self-driving truck company Einride said on Wednesday it would broaden its partnership with Nvidia by testing the chipmaker's AI reasoning model, Alpamayo, in its self-driving vehicles, aiming to speed up the expansion of autonomous freight services while lowering development costs.
Alpamayo is Nvidia's vision language action model, which can interpret driving environments, recommend vehicle actions and explain its reasoning.
• The Swedish company said it plans to become the first trucking operator to deploy Alpamayo, adapting the model using data collected from its commercial freight operations • Einride said the technology could help shorten development cycles and make it easier to extend autonomous driving capabilities to new vehicle types and routes, with a live road evaluation planned for the second half of 2027 • The partnership builds on a broader Nvidia tie-up announced in September covering autonomous driving, safety systems and AI model training • The companies will initially test Alpamayo in "shadow mode", where the model runs alongside existing systems without controlling the vehicle, allowing its decisions to be compared with those of Einride's driving software and human driver • The announcement follows Einride's September rollout of what it said was the first cab-less autonomous truck operating in regular service on public roads in Germany, transporting goods for supermarket chain Lidl • Einride was among several European mobility companies highlighted by Nvidia on Wednesday as showcasing autonomous vehicle applications on the Nvidia Hyperion platform, alongside Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Bolt
Oct 21, 2026 · via channelnewsasia.com
Oct 21 (Reuters) - Self-driving truck company Einride said on Wednesday it would broaden its partnership with Nvidia by testing the chipmaker's AI reasoning model, Alpamayo, in its self-driving vehicles, aiming to speed up the expansion of autonomous freight services while lowering development costs.
Alpamayo is Nvidia's vision language action model, which can interpret driving environments, recommend vehicle actions and explain its reasoning.
• The Swedish company said it plans to become the first trucking operator to deploy Alpamayo, adapting the model using data collected from its commercial freight operations • Einride said the technology could help shorten development cycles and make it easier to extend autonomous driving capabilities to new vehicle types and routes, with a live road evaluation planned for the second half of 2027 • The partnership builds on a broader Nvidia tie-up announced in September covering autonomous driving, safety systems and AI model training • The companies will initially test Alpamayo in "shadow mode", where the model runs alongside existing systems without controlling the vehicle, allowing its decisions to be compared with those of Einride's driving software and human driver • The announcement follows Einride's September rollout of what it said was the first cab-less autonomous truck operating in regular service on public roads in Germany, transporting goods for supermarket chain Lidl • Einride was among several European mobility companies highlighted by Nvidia on Wednesday as showcasing autonomous vehicle applications on the Nvidia Hyperion platform, alongside Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Bolt (Reporting by Prathik Jayaprakash in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)
Oct 21, 2026 · via live.euronext.com
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The warning-device requirement for commercial motor vehicles has created operational challenges for the emerging technology of autonomous trucks.
In support of the exemption, the applicants submitted two studies on the safety of cab-mounted warning beacons.
Rather, the decision relied on new information provided in the exemption application and the limitations of the exemption that the agency was granting.
The agency also took another look at the two studies that had been submitted with the 2023 exemption application.
Each motor carrier operating under the exemption must report crashes while the cab-mounted warning beacons are activated or should have been activated.
Oct 21, 2026 · via environmentalhealthsafetybrief.sidley.com
Big fleets and Elon Musk are once again talking “driver shortage,” and DOT has been quietly clearing the way for automation for years.
The article cites human drivers’ HOS limitations, the rising cost of diesel, and yes an “acute driver shortage” reported from businesses as powering self-driving’s growth.
Aurora has 200 self-driving trucks on the road in Texas, Volvo plans 300, and Amazon, Pepsi and Walmart all have pilot programs going.
In the American Transportation Research Institute's most recent annual Top Industry Issues report, big fleets once again listed the “driver shortage” as a top concern.
In addition to individuals like Jonathan Wood, who took his message that human drivers should be required in autonomous trucks to Congress, autonomous trucks were company drivers' No.
Oct 20, 2026 · via overdriveonline.com
AV technology is gaining commercial momentum Skepticism toward AV technology is not irrational given the fits and starts in this space over the last 15 years (Figure 1).
However, we believe the commercial inflection across both the robotaxi and long‑haul trucking use cases should become clear in 2027 and beyond.
However, autonomous driving systems also never get distracted, emotional, or tired.
Plenty of autonomous driving companies are running beta tests within narrow geographic fences and at low speeds.
In our view, autonomous driving is a growth story whose nuances are often misunderstood.
Oct 20, 2026 · via troweprice.com
AV technology is gaining commercial momentum Skepticism toward AV technology is not irrational given the fits and starts in this space over the last 15 years (Figure 1).
However, we believe the commercial inflection across both the robotaxi and long‑haul trucking use cases should become clear in 2027 and beyond.
However, autonomous driving systems also never get distracted, emotional, or tired.
Plenty of autonomous driving companies are running beta tests within narrow geographic fences and at low speeds.
In our view, autonomous driving is a growth story whose nuances are often misunderstood.
Oct 20, 2026 · via troweprice.com
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Oct 20, 2026 · via finance.yahoo.com
Time magazine’s list of the 300 best inventions for 2026 features eight with a Dallas-Fort Worth connection.
The DFW list spans autonomous freight, synthetic biology, consumer electronics, medical devices and connected fitness.
By September, Driver 2 trucks had logged more than 500,000 driverless miles without a single at-fault crash, Time said.
The Pittsburgh-based company expects 200 second-generation trucks on the road before the end of 2026.
Helpany: DFW-made AI for senior care Helpany, a startup with U.S. headquarters in Phoenix, makes fall-prevention devices under the brand name Paul in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Oct 20, 2026 · via dallasinnovates.com
The Software Choice Is Deliberately Left Open The more strategically interesting decision is what Daimler is doing on top of that redundant chassis, and it is a choice that directly affects fleet risk.
Rather than hard-wiring the truck to a single self-driving company, the company is building the platform to remain adaptable.
So the truck provides a common, autonomy-ready foundation, and the specific self-driving system becomes a modular layer installed according to each provider’s requirements.
A fleet that locks its equipment to one self-driving vendor is making a bet on that vendor surviving and leading.
By keeping the chassis provider-agnostic, Daimler is preserving optionality, both for itself and for the customer, so that the hardware investment is not stranded if the software landscape shifts.
Oct 20, 2026 · via freightwaves.com
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