Season two of the HDT Talks Trucking podcast is now available, covering topics such as California’s AB5 law restricting the use of independent contractors, autonomous trucks, electric trucks, and reducing unscheduled downtime.
TuSimple has established a partnership with ZF to develop and commercialize technology for autonomous trucks.
Starsky Robotics founder Stefan Seltz-Axmacher said his autonomous trucks development company is shutting down. "Trucking companies aren’t great technology customers," he said.
Grocers, food retailers, and auto parts stores are contracting with autonomous last-mile delivery services today. Here’s how the business model is evolving in its early stages.
UPS has begun testing the suitability and durability of Gaussin electric vehicles, which also have autonomous driving capability, to move semi-trailers and containers on the grounds of UPS’s advanced-technology freight hub in London.
TuSimple has expanded autonomous truck service for current customer UPS to 20 trips per week and has added an additional route between Phoenix, Arizona, and El Paso, Texas.
A Golden, Colorado, tech start-up called Outrider has come out of nowhere with $53 million in funding for its Outrider System – a new, autonomous yard operations system for logistics hubs.
Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics are expanding testing of automated truck technology to new public routes in the U.S., with further development and validation efforts to continue in Virginia.
Scania says new positioning technology leveraging the capabilities of the Galileo global navigation satellite system has achieved accuracy down to centimeter-scale levels for autonomous vehicles, allowing tricky maneuvers like merging.
Royal Truck and Equipment develops autonomous platooning technology for vocational and municipal applications such as sweepers, water trucks, line stripers, or maintenance trucks.