by dankeelan | Dec 21, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Trucks
What would you do if you were driving down I-45 and noticed the semi truck one lane over didn’t have a driver? Aurora Innovation is a self-driving technology company that’s in the driver’s seat of developing autonomous freight trucks. ...
by dankeelan | Dec 7, 2023 | Auto Industry, Autonomous Vehicles, Trucks
When TuSimple went public in 2021 it was flying high as the leading self-driving trucks developer in the United States. Now — after a string of internal controversies and the loss of a critical partnership with truck manufacturer Navistar — TuSimple is exiting the...
by dankeelan | Nov 16, 2023 | Featured, Hydrogen, Trucks
Jim Gillis is making a big bet on hydrogen-powered big rigs. Gillis, president of the Pacific region for Collierville, Tenn.-based IMC, will take delivery in the coming weeks of his first hydrogen electric fuel-cell Nikola trucks long before the technology is proven...
by dankeelan | Nov 15, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Trucks
Autonomous trucks are slowly hitting the road, mostly on interstates in Texas and the Southwest, with a human driver on board, standing by, or traveling in platoons behind a lead truck driven by a person. Maersk is running Kodiak Robotics trucks between warehouses in...
by dankeelan | Oct 5, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing, Trucks
Not long ago, cars topped with a futuristic apparatus could regularly be seen cruising along Pittsburgh’s streets, testing technology that allowed the vehicles to get around without a person steering the wheel. But such car sightings have become rare as the autonomous...
by dankeelan | Sep 28, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Trucks
California Gov. Gavin Newsome vetoed Assembly Bill 316, which would have banned driverless autonomous trucks over 10,000 pounds from California roads. He said the regulation was unnecessary and existing laws provide sufficient authority for oversight and regulatory...
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