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Articlesby Jim ParkSeptember 3, 2020

Inside the Cab of an Autonomous Truck

Testing autonomous trucks is more complex than it seems. The men and women sitting in the left seat of the nation's burgeoning fleet of robotic trucks are often called safety drivers. Their responsibilities are far more comprehensive than just keeping the truck out of trouble.

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeSeptember 3, 2020

Torc’s Fleming: Retrofitting Trucks for Autonomy 'Not Commercially Viable'

Unlike their competitors, Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics won’t give a definitive timeline to deployment for driverless trucks — and say that in their development, they must be built from the ground up.

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Newsby Jim ParkAugust 12, 2020

Autonomous Convoy Developer Locomation Completes Initial Phase of Fleet Testing

Locomation and Wilson Logistics partnered on an eight-day pilot project for the autonomous convoy concept, which saw 14 commercial loads successfully transported from Portland, Oregon, to Nampa, Idaho.

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeAugust 5, 2020

Levandowski Sentenced for Stealing Autonomous Vehicle Documents

Self-driving truck entrepreneur Anthony Levandowski has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing trade secrets related to autonomous vehicles, in what the judge called “the "biggest trade secret crime I have ever seen."

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeAugust 4, 2020

DTNA's New Engineering Chief on Autonomous Tech, Electric Trucks and More

When Rainer Müller-Finkeldei started working on artificial intelligence at Daimler in 1995, few people knew what AI was or had heard of neural networks. Now he’s in the thick of autonomous truck development and more as the new senior vice president of engineering and technology at Daimler Trucks North America.

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Newsby StaffJuly 21, 2020

Plus.ai to Test Self-Driving Trucks with Multi-Vehicle Approach

Self-driving truck developer Plus.ai recently made an agreement with the Transportation Research Center (TRC) to conduct capability tests of Plus.ai’s self-driving system using a multi-vehicle approach.

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Newsby StaffJuly 15, 2020

Auburn University to Build Autonomous Research Facility

Researchers at Auburn University's GPS and Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory (GAVLAB) will no longer have to prep autonomous vehicles outside with the addition of its new autonomous vehicle research facility at Auburn's National Center for Asphalt Technology test track.

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Newsby Jim ParkJuly 15, 2020

Navistar, TuSimple Partner to Bring Self-driving Trucks to Market by 2024

A collaboration between Navistar and TuSimple will accelerate testing and proving of technology capable of running commercial trucks at full driverless Level 4 operation by 2024.

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Newsby StaffJuly 10, 2020

Webinar on Automated Trucking, Collision Repair Industry Survey

The HD Repair Forum will host a two-part webinar on Thursday, July 16, providing insight on autonomous technology and results from a recent survey of the collision repair.

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Newsby StaffJuly 1, 2020

TuSimple's New Autonomous Freight Network Lays Groundwork for Self-Driving Trucks

Autonomous trucking technology company TuSimple announced the launch of its Autonomous Freight Network, which it says will lay the groundwork for self-driving trucks to become commercially available by 2024.

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