Autonomous Trucks News

  • It’s An Electric Train, But Don’t Call It An Electric Train


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    The $4.5 Million Electric Train Of The FutureParallel contacted CleanTechnica by email with an update this week, and it looks like they put those ARPA-E dollars to good use. To the extent that electric rail vehicles can replace diesel trucks, t...

  • Future of $900B US trucking industry could be decided in California


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    California already has rules governing self-driving cars and delivery trucks that weigh less than 10,001 pounds. Now, the California Department of Motor Vehicles is gathering information for potential new rules that would let self-driving semi-...

  • Kroger to begin using self-driving trucks for deliveries


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    Kroger announced that the company will soon start delivering groceries using self-driving trucks in the Dallas area in Texas. The grocery store chain has partnered with Gatik to use the California-based company’s autonomous box trucks to bring ...

  • Is Trucking A Lonely Job? And Does That Matter?


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    The unhappiest jobs are also some of the loneliest, according to an 85-year study from Harvard researchers. Jobs that require little human interaction and don’t offer opportunities to build meaningful relationships with co-workers tend to have ...

  • Autonomous trucking: Daimler Truck subsidiary Torc reaches agreement to acquire Algolux for AI-ba...


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    “We’re thrilled to welcome Algolux to the Torc family,” says Peter Vaughan Schmidt, Torc CEO. Robust perception technology is key to helping Torc’s autonomous system correctly identify objects in difficult visual conditions such as low light, f...

  • Why self-driving pioneer Raquel Urtasun is determined to solve our supply chain woes


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    And we cannot realize the full power of our economy because we have a very disrupted supply chain that’s really not functioning. Through the pandemic, we saw how these issues could affect every single business, every single person. There are no...

  • Kroger Sending off Self-Driving Trucks in Dallas


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    Gatik’s autonomous trucks will be carrying Kroger’s fresh products to the stores from their distribution center according to Dallas Innovates. Founded in 2017, Gatik is an autonomous middle-mile trucking company based in California, and the com...

  • Daimler Truck autonomous unit acquiring AI specialist


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    Daimler Truck and Torc are testing SAE Level 4 autonomous Freightliner Cascadia trucksTorc Robotics, an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck and a self proclaimed “pioneer in commercialising self-driving vehicle technology”, announced it had...