autonomous trucking

‘That guy was nuts!’: Autonomous trucks must account for dangerous drivers

TUCSON, Ariz. — Nearly seven of 10 automobile crashes occur within 10 miles of home, according to insurance industry statistics.

It’s apparently true even for autonomous trucks.

An otherwise uneventful ride in TuSimple’s high autonomy-equipped International LT on a sunny Wednesday morning last month turned dicey when four impatient motorists raced past the truck on the left as it began a wide right turn into the company driveway.

Then, a white Jeep Compass SUV whipped by on the right, encroaching...

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F3 chat: Trucking automation is much closer than you think

A photograph of a man talking at a desk.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Emerging technologies in transportation — autonomous is around the corner

DETAILS: How soon will autonomous trucks be on the highway? Why has freight transportation changed so much in the past few years — and is that change all because of the COVID-19 pandemic? Shanker discusses these questions and more with Danny Gomez, FreightWaves managing director of financial and emerging markets.

SPEAKER: Ravi Shanker, executive director and lead transportation and airlines analyst,...

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TuSimple tops 160,000 autonomous miles with UPS, expands routes to Florida

Autonomous truck software maker TuSimple Holdings has surpassed 160,000 robot-driven miles for UPS and is expanding routes for parcel loads to Florida from Arizona and Texas.

“The paid freight part is good, and we like to get paid for our work,” TuSimple CEO Cheng Lu told FreightWaves. “At the end of the day, the revenue we have with UPS relative to UPS and the overall industry is tiny. It’s almost laughable really, given how much they bill every year. 

“But being able to map the routes, have...

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TuSimple discloses specifics of federal ownership probe

Driverless trucking software developer TuSimple Holdings reported $1.5 million in revenue from its growing autonomous freight network in Q2, a fivefold increase over a year ago.

The San Diego-based company reported it is still waiting to see how and whether its ownership structure will change based on an investigation by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

CFIUS is conducting a 45-day review of the 2017 purchase of TuSimple’s redeemable convertible preferred shares...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tusimple-discloses-specifics-of-federal-ownership-probe

AEV Summit: Autonomous trucking set to leap from science experiment

Kodiak Robotics CEO and co-founder Don Burnette in a video chat with Alan Adler of FreightWaves, discussing autonomous trucking

This keynote recap is from FreightWaves’ Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Summit on Wednesday.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Why autonomous trucking is really a science project

DETAILS: Industry pioneer Don Burnette explains why experimentation has been key to the development of autonomous trucking technology — and that the industry is poised to leap to a viable commercial product. He talks with FreightWaves Detroit Bureau Chief Alan Adler. 

SPEAKER: Burnette is the co-founder and CEO of Kodiak Robotics. 

BIO:...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/aev-summit-autonomous-trucking-set-to-leap-from-science-experiment

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