More than any autonomous trucking startup, Waymo Via claims that a dozen years of self-driving car development from the original Google self-driving car program affords unparalleled lessons for creating autonomous trucks.
The case is one that only one other autonomous trucking startup can make. That is Aurora Innovation, which has melded technology from the acquisition of Uber’s ATG unit into its Aurora Driver software that Paccar and Volvo have embraced.
Waymo has more real-world miles and...
FedEx Corp. will integrate Aurora Innovation’s high-autonomy software-equipped trucks from PACCAR Inc. into its linehaul logistics operations in Texas, the latest example of real-world testing of robot-driven trucks.
Aurora, a latecomer to autonomous trucking after focusing its efforts on autonomous ride-hailing, is trying to assume first-mover status, leapfrogging competitors targeting long-haul driverless trucks in 2024. Aurora is aiming to remove the driver from the cab of its trucks in late...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/aurora-paccar-and-fedex-team-up-to-test-autonomous-trucks-in-texas
SAN FRANCISCO — SPAC-sponsored Embark Trucks is adding more than 150 years of cumulative industry experience to its preparations for going public, assembling a strategic advisory board that touches all transportation industry sectors.
Embark is not the first autonomous trucking software startup to tap into the industry. TuSimple Holdings (NASDAQ: TSP) went public in April, the first of four autonomous trucking companies to seek public trading. TuSimple has a large group of advisers, many of whom...
Autonomous trucking startup Locomation is pursuing with two Class 8 trucks what others are trying to accomplish with one: ultimately operating without a driver in either cab.
The 3-year-old company is based in Pittsburgh, home of Carnegie Mellon University, a launch point for many of the brightest minds in robot cars and trucks. Founder Cetin Mericli is one of that group.
Locomation is not just about autonomous trucks, a challenge of at least a half-dozen well-financed startup companies. San...
Trading in shares of TuSimple Holdings approached three times their average volume Tuesday as a lockup preventing certain investors from selling expired. After sliding for six weeks, shares ended the day 3% higher.
The autonomous trucking software developer went public in a traditional initial public offering in April that raised more than $1 billion at a valuation of more than $8 billion.
Three other autonomous trucking companies — Plus, Aurora Innovation and Embark Trucks — are in various...
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
CUPERTINO, Calif. — So what is it like when a robot is doing the driving of a fully loaded Class 8 heavy-duty truck?
Really smooth. Really well mannered. And the sense that surrounding traffic is oblivious to the likely future of trucking, at least of this hourlong ride on several northern California freeways on a sunny afternoon in early July.
Freightwaves accepted an invitation from startup autonomous trucking software maker Plus to experience the current state of its Level 4 software retrofit...
This week, we look at how technology patents suggest possible winners and also-rans in the autonomous trucking race to commercialization. And Cummins cuts a deal that replaces the sunsetting of its 20-year-old natural gas joint venture with Westport Fuel Systems.
A patent argumentSizing up the prospects of autonomous software trucking companies needs a scorecard, or maybe a Racing Forum. There’s no question that a horse race to commercialization is underway. Distinguishing winners from also-rans...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-talk-autonomous-patent-edition
Embark Trucks Inc., the first autonomous trucking software company to hit the highway, is the latest to join the SPAC parade to public trading.
The Mountain View, California, startup, founded in 2016, completed a 2,400-mile cross-country trip from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, Florida, two years later using autonomous software monitored by a human safety driver and an autonomous engineer.
The proposed business combination with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Northern Genesis...