What do law-enforcement officials do when they need to stop a driverless truck? Autonomous truck tech developer Embark Trucks is working with the Texas Department of Public Safety to answer that question.
June 1, 2022
Nauto's AI technology, designed to track and analyze risk in real-time, will be available through International truck dealers.
February 16, 2022
A new order mandates major manufacturers, Tier 1 suppliers, and operators of autonomous vehicles to report crashes of vehicles equipped with emerging in-vehicle technologies.
June 29, 2021
Embark said it is the first automated truck technology company to introduce a work-zone navigation system, and it's working with Arizona to improve work-zone safety.
March 25, 2021
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration isn’t sure when autonomous commercial trucks are coming, but its researchers are busily preparing for widespread use of the technology – including the potential impact on the workforce, the new acting administrator said.
March 11, 2021
Autonomous technology developer Aurora, which just bought Uber's self-driving vehicle business, says its first market-ready product will be an autonomous truck.
December 9, 2020
Waymo announced two new research and development facilities to help it advance its Waymo Driver autonomous driving system across multiple vehicle platforms and environments.
December 2, 2020
Daimler Trucks zeros in on driver safety and freight efficiency as its main autonomous technology goals.
November 13, 2020
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration wants to learn more about how the trucking industry might integrate trucks with autonomous technology into fleets.
November 4, 2020
Daimler announced a strategic partnership with Luminar Technologies, a provider of automotive lidar hardware and software technology, to address a key enabling technology for autonomous truck operation, or what Daimler calls "highly automated" trucks.
October 30, 2020
COVID-19 does not seem to have slowed down the staff at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which is juggling multiple rulemakings and research projects as it approaches the last months of the current administration’s term, from younger drivers to additional hours-of-service flexibility.
October 23, 2020
Autonomous tech company TuSimple recently announced that Jim Mullen, the former Acting Administrator of the FMCSA, will serve as the organization’s chief legal and risk officer.
September 30, 2020
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration denied an application from Pronto.ai requesting that drivers of its autonomous-tech trucks be allowed to operate longer hours than current hours-of-service regulations allow.
September 28, 2020
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) recently released a stop-motion video on the future of commercial motor vehicle safety technology, inspections and enforcement.
September 22, 2020
A seminar at the 2020 Fleet Forward Experience will bring two autonomous tech startups together with the views of incumbent fleet management to understand autonomous business models for fleets.
September 15, 2020
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