by dankeelan | Jan 18, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Tire Technology, Trucks
Gatik’s autonomous box trucks are going to be the first AVs on the road to roll on Goodyear’s ultra-intelligent data-collecting tires. Using its proprietary Sightline tech, the tires can measure their own air pressure, the amount of friction between the rubber and the...
by dankeelan | Jan 18, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Trucks
Driverless trucks with no humans on board will soon cruise Texas highways if three startup firms have their way, despite objections from critics who say financial pressures, not safety, is behind the timetable. After years of testing, Aurora Innovation Inc., Kodiak...
by dankeelan | Jan 11, 2024 | Featured, Robots, Trucks
A Mountain View, Calif. company is taking the phrase “keep on truckin'” to the next level as it unveiled what it’s calling the world’s first driverless-ready semi-truck designed for scaled deployment. Kodiak Robotics, which debuted the vehicle at the...
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...
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