It’s understood that autonomous trucks boost fuel efficiency compared to human-driven big rigs.
But the potential energy efficiency gains could be far greater.
In a white paper released Tuesday, Aurora Innovation looked at immediate, medium- and longer-term opportunities and found some obvious and not-so-obvious savings.
The headline factoid: Autonomous trucks could achieve 13%-32% net energy efficiency improvement per loaded mile compared to human-driven miles. It is a lot to digest.
Aurora makes...
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