Autonomous Freight

Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.

Aurora Innovation is trying to prove it has thought through issues surrounding autonomous trucking as it targets late 2023 to launch its Horizon system.

Waymo Via and C.H. Robinson are the latest dance partners seeking to choreograph autonomous trucking.

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TuSimple says its autonomous trucking software is “feature complete” and it will expand driverless trucking beyond a pilot program.

Outrider is adding autonomously precise backing of trailers to the dock to its range of driverless services in distribution yards.

Embark Trucks’ connection with Knight-Swift will lead to the installation of high-autonomy software by the end of 2022.

TuSimple advances its commercialization timetable for driverless trucking and adds intermodal freight for Union Pacific at the Port of Tucson in Arizona.

The roads are mostly mapped for TuSimple to drive autonomously in Texas. Now it is up to commercial property developers to get ready.

Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.

With Aurora Driver 2.0, the self-driving developer plans to field the first robotic ride-hailing minivans along with Class 8 trucks.

TuSimple achieved its goal of sending a Class 8 truck with no one in the cab on a nighttime run along Interstate 10 in Arizona.

German shipper and delivery service DHL reserves 100 TuSimple autonomous trucks six weeks after joining Embark Trucks’ partner program.

Kodiak Robotics CEO Don Burnette says asset utilization is the big promise of autonomous trucks now testing mostly in the southwest U.S.

Aurora Innovation acquired Uber’s advanced technology group last year. Now it is piloting autonomous integration with Uber Freight.

AV manufacturers are quickly building evidence to prove the safety of autonomous driving technology.

Self-driving trucking company Embark plans to begin hauling freight for customers between Houston and San Antonio next year.

Aurora Technology pledges to be first to take the driver out of an autonomous truck in late 2023, but its freight ambitions are modest at present.

Revenue is not the point in TuSimple’s partnership with UPS, which holds the autonomous trucking startup to its third-party shipper standards.

Redeploying drivers to get loads to and from transfer hubs promises huge savings, according to a Ryder System-funded study with Georgia Tech.

In the disruptive world of autonomous trucking, TuSimple says it has to haul freight to prove the technology works.

Aurora Innovation and Embark Trucks will soon join TuSimple Holdings as stocks betting on the future of driverless trucks.

With 14,200 reservations for its autonomous trucking software, Embark Trucks predicts it will surpass the first-year revenue target.

Both candidates said that organizing Amazon is a top priority, noting that Amazon and UPS workers’ futures are at stake.

TuSimple is sitting on $1.5 billion in cash as it ramps up hiring and expands its autonomous freight network.

TuSimple will use Ryder System maintenance terminals as it expands its autonomous freight network from Arizona to Florida by year-end.

Kodiak Robotics co-founder and CEO Don Burnette explains why the development of autonomous trucking is poised to leap from the experimentation phase to a viable commercial product during the Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Summit.