Chief among the key rulemakings the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will focus on this year are actions pertaining to autonomous trucks, broker financial responsibility, and safety fitness.
March 2, 2022
What will happen during a roadside inspection when a truck is highly or fully automated? And how might a truly “driverless” truck be inspected at an accident scene? HDT Talks Trucking turns to CVSA to find out.
January 3, 2021
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HDT Executive Editor David Cullen takes you inside the exhibit hall of the Transportation Research Board's 99th Annual Meeting. TRB works to advance all modes of transportation, including improving highways to make freight movements by truck safer and more efficient.
January 16, 2020
Another consolidation among global truck makers is in the works: Sweden’s Volvo Group is selling its Japan-based UD Trucks business to Isuzu Motors.
December 18, 2019
Michelin Group will support Sweden-based startup firm Einride by deploying its autonomous and all-electric T/Pod transport truck starting next year at the tire maker’s production facilities in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
June 4, 2019
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration are seeking public comment on matters related to rolling out autonomous-driving systems.
May 22, 2019
Mitja Schulz, senior vice president, Commercial Vehicle Technology for ZF, spoke with HDT about how advanced technologies can improve efficiency and safety for trucking.
December 5, 2018
The Department of Transportation has expanded its voluntary guidance for the development of what it calls “automated vehicles.”
October 4, 2018
German component manufacturer ZF Friedrichshafen AG showed off its vision of the future of trucking and logistics at the company's Technology Day, unveiling new electric and automated vehicle technologies.
June 27, 2018
Sweden-based AB Volvo announced on Jan. 23 that it will start selling electric trucks in Europe in 2019, with the first units entering service with select customers sometime this year – and the company's North American operations say they see a future for "electromobility" here as well.
January 23, 2018
If you were asked to describe a smart highway, you might say it swiftly collects tolls. You might say it speeds the flow of goods. You might say it advances safety. You might even say it glows. And you might say, how on Earth do I merge onto this ribbon of wonder?
November 16, 2017
While the House has already passed a bill that could help bring self-driving cars to market faster, a Senate panel is taking a more deliberative approach by considering whether such legislation should also help foster the development of autonomous truck technologies.
September 13, 2017
The National Transportation Safety Board has ruled that a truck driver’s failure to yield the right of way and a car driver’s “inattention due to over-reliance on vehicle automation” are the probable cause of the May 7, 2016, collision of a tractor-trailer and a Tesla S sedan operating in autonomous mode.
September 12, 2017
Despite the argument that some sort of self-driving truck will become an everyday reality before any self-driving car does, legislation that would ease the application of autonomous driving technology to commercial trucks has so far failed to gain traction on Capitol Hill.
September 7, 2017
The global autonomous vehicle market revenue is expected to grow at a compound average growth rate of 39.6% over the next 10 years - resulting in a $126.8 billion market by 2027, according to Infoholic Research.
July 11, 2017
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