Kodiak hauling autonomous loads for Ceva from Texas to Oklahoma City

Kodiak Robotics is hauling freight autonomously from Texas to Oklahoma City as part of a partnership with third-party logistics giant Ceva Logistics.

Other than test runs of watermelons that rival TuSimple delivered to the Sooner State from Arizona last May, Kodiak claims the first regular deliveries using autonomous trucks. And they come as Ceva, like other shippers, struggles to find enough drivers.

“At Ceva, we define innovation as the implementation of new ideas with business impact, and our...

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TuSimple will make driverless testing permanent en route to commercialization

Autonomous trucking software developer TuSimple will make driverless runs permanent as it gets closer to commercializing autonomous trucking on the nation’s freeways.

“Driver-out proves we are feature complete, which means our autonomous driving system has all the capabilities required for true driver operations along commercial routes. And that it is able to safely mitigate or contain all the edge cases during operations,” CEO Cheng Lu told analysts on the company’s Q4 earnings call after...

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TuSimple watch party for driverless Ghost Rider feat left executives speechless

As they gathered around a video screen tracking progress of Ghost Rider — the first Class 8 truck with no human driver — navigating its way west toward Phoenix from Tucson, Arizona, TuSimple executives found themselves speechless.

“I mean, we had to kind of take in that moment,” TuSimple President and CEO Cheng Lu told FreightWaves. “You know, with all the work we put into this, and to see it really happen on the highway, I think the word we used most was speechless.”

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