Waymo, the self-driving unit owned by Alphabet Inc., is slowing the development of autonomous trucking that’s being done by its Via subsidiary.\n“With our decision to focus on ride-hailing, we’ll push back the timeline on our commercial and operational efforts on trucking, as well as most of our technical development on that business unit,” the company said in a statement.\nAutonomous ventures like Waymo have spent billions of dollars in capital only to bring in little, if any revenue.\nWaymo has made more progress monetizing its robotaxi business than it has in trucking.\nWaymo Via has a partnership with Uber Freight to develop autonomous longhaul trucking as a business, making it the only self-driving company that has worked to develop robotaxi technology and highway trucking.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"How to Maximize Trailer Cargo Space [Video]","slug":"how-to-maximize-trailer-cargo-space-video","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-07-27 14:30:41.726179","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"In this video, you'll learn how Kinedyne can help you increase the carrying capacity for trailers in your fleet.\nThis episode of HDT's Leadership Insights is produced in partnership with, and sponsored by, Kinedyne.\nThere are only so many square feet of floor space in a trailer, and some cargo just doesn’t take kindly to double-stacking.\nBut there’s an easy way to double your floor space, as HDT's Jim Park learns in this conversation with Kinedyne’s Joe Vergeldedios.\nLearn More About Increasing Trailer Cargo Capacity:Watch This Episode to Learn:
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Congress Urged to Revive Long-stalled Debate About Regulating Self-driving Vehicles","slug":"congress-urged-to-revive-long-stalled-debate-about-regulating-self-driving-vehicles","publishDate":"2023-07-27 03:10:08+05:30","createdLocal":"2023-07-27 14:30:40.824424","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Currently AV manufacturers can deploy a maximum of 2,500 self-driving vehicles for testing, provided they have permission from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.\nAV advocates have complained that the limits represent a bottleneck that is holding back the growth of the industry at a crucial time.\nIndustry advocates argued Wednesday that accidents involving self-driving vehicles are exaggerated and that the machines are already far more reliable than human beings.\nBut auto safety advocates have cast doubt on industry claims about the safety of autonomous vehicles and the numbers they use to back up those claims.\nRobotaxis from Cruise are eight times more likely to get into a crash than humans, she said, while autonomous vehicles from Waymo, a spinoff of Google, are four times more likely than humans to crash.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Waymo Halts Autonomous Truck Work To Focus On Self-Driving Taxis","slug":"waymo-halts-autonomous-truck-work-to-focus-on-self-driving-taxis","publishDate":"2023-07-26 17:54:11+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-07-27 14:30:40.064486","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Waymo Halts Autonomous Truck Work To Focus On Self-Driving TaxisWaymo has been making big strides in the autonomous trucking industry over the past few years, but expect that momentum to slow down for the time being.\nInstead, the Alphabet Inc. company will be shifting its focus to Waymo Driver, its fully autonomous tech that is generalizable and designed for a much broader scale.\nWaymo Driver is already one of the foremost technologies for autonomous driving, and the most experienced and expansive.\nUnlike Driver Assist, it's fully autonomous — Waymo even completely replaced steering wheels with touchscreens.\nBy \"doubling down\" on its efforts at the expense of its autonomous trucking projects, Waymo is looking to advance Waymo Driver to the point where it can become commonplace on the road, including in taxis across the country.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Congress urged to revive long-stalled debate about regulating self-driving vehicles","slug":"congress-urged-to-revive-long-stalled-debate-about-regulating-self-driving-vehicles","publishDate":"2023-07-27 06:05:41+08:00","createdLocal":"2023-07-27 14:30:39.744366","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Currently AV manufacturers can deploy a maximum of 2,500 self-driving vehicles for testing, provided they have permission from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.\nAV advocates have complained that the limits represent a bottleneck that is holding back the growth of the industry at a crucial time.\nIndustry advocates argued Wednesday that accidents involving self-driving vehicles are exaggerated and that the machines are already far more reliable than human beings.\nBut auto safety advocates have cast doubt on industry claims about the safety of autonomous vehicles and the numbers they use to back up those claims.\nRobotaxis from Cruise are eight times more likely to get into a crash than humans, she said, while autonomous vehicles from Waymo, a spinoff of Google, are four times more likely than humans to crash.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Waymo Via backs away from autonomous trucking","slug":"waymo-via-backs-away-from-autonomous-trucking","publishDate":"2023-07-26 21:50:39+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-07-27 14:30:38.445866","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Alphabet Inc. is indefinitely delaying most work on by its Waymo Via autonomous trucking unit to focus efforts on robot-driven passenger cars for ride hailing.\nWaymo Via is the latest to head to the sidelines in a shrinking field of autonomous trucking developers.\nWaymo’s future in autonomous trucking had been whispered about by competitors since the layoff of 12,000 Alphabet employees in January.\nWaymo and Daimler will continue work on redundant chassisWaymo said it would continue its commitment to work with Daimler Truck on a redundant chassis for the Waymo Driver system.\nDaimler, Waymo joining forces to build autonomous Freightliner CascadiaExclusive: Watching Waymo build autonomous Freightliner CascadiasClick for more FreightWaves articles by Alan Adler.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Waymo is scaling back its self-driving truck ambitions","slug":"waymo-is-scaling-back-its-self-driving-truck-ambitions","publishDate":"2023-07-26 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-07-27 14:30:37.306851","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Waymo is pausing its efforts to develop autonomous truck technology to refocus on ridehailing services instead.\nWaymo’s trucking unit, also known as Waymo Via, sat alongside its Waymo One robotaxi division.\nBut the news seemed especially bad for the trucking division, with sources telling TechCrunch that Waymo Via was on the chopping block.\nWaymo plans to continue to work with Daimler (the parent company of Mercedes-Benz) on the development of a driverless truck.\nThe company also plans to continue development of its Driver product as a system that can be scaled to different types of vehicles (no longer specifically trucks).
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Waymo puts driverless truck program on hold","slug":"waymo-puts-driverless-truck-program-on-hold","publishDate":"2023-07-26 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-07-27 14:30:36.844856","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"\"Our goal is to set our company on a solid path of value creation by focusing on achieving commercial success for our ride-hailing business in the near term.\nWe continue to see a significant future commercial opportunity for our trucking solution alongside other commercial applications of the Waymo Driver.\nLaser-focusing on ride-hailing today puts us, our partners, and our customers in a strong position to be successful in the future across all of the business lines we pursue over time, showcasing the breadth of the Waymo Driver.\"\nWaymo said it continues to seek development of a generalizable, fully autonomous Driver – the Waymo Driver – designed to integrate with a variety of vehicle platforms and commercial applications including ride-hailing, trucking, local delivery and personal car ownership.\nAnother driverless truck tech company, TuSimple, announced in June it intends to exit the U.S. market and explore putting itself up for sale.
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