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Electric Last Mile Solutions files for bankruptcy liquidation

ELMS van in middle of street at dusk

Battery-electric delivery van startup Electric Last Mile Solutions (ELMS) has filed for bankruptcy liquidation, ending a long slide that included insider trading, an SEC investigation and a bear market that is pummeling newly public transportation companies.

“Unfortunately, there were too many obstacles for us to overcome in the short amount of time available to us,” Shauna McIntyre, interim CEO and president, said in a press release.

In an 8-K filing Sunday with the Securities and Exchange...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/electric-last-mile-solutions-files-for-bankruptcy-liquidation

This autonomous ride-along was boring — and that’s a good thing

PALMER, Texas — Successful autonomous trucking runs have nothing in common. As in nothing happens that the robot driver cannot handle as intended. That includes knowing to slow down for the man who occasionally walks his dog along Interstate 45 south of Dallas.

Aurora Innovation’s autonomous trucks have seen the man and the dog before and the robot Aurora Driver systems learned to brake almost imperceptibly, obeying the Texas law to shift one lane to the left or reduce its speed by 20 mph.

“The...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/this-autonomous-ride-along-was-boring-and-thats-a-good-thing

Seasonal assist: Waymo Via testing autonomous trucks with UPS in Texas

Waymo Via is joining the freight-dense Interstate 45 route from Fort Worth, Texas, to Houston in a six-week test of its latest autonomous trucking software for UPS that comes as the package delivery company benefits from extra help for the holiday shipping season.

The human-supervised Class 8 trucks with the Generation 5 Waymo Driver system are the first commercial application of Waymo’s system that will be integrated into Freightliner Cascadias through Waymo’s partnership with Daimler Trucks...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/seasonal-assist-waymo-via-testing-autonomous-trucks-with-ups-in-texas