Autonomous trucking technology company TuSimple announced the launch of its Autonomous Freight Network, which it says will lay the groundwork for self-driving trucks to become commercially available by 2024.
Zoox started in 2014 with the vision of purpose-built, zero-emissions vehicles designed for autonomous ride-hailing, along with an end-to-end autonomy software stack.
The online forum will provide information on automated driving systems and granular data on testing activities. Beep, Cruise, FCA, Local Motors, Navya, Nuro, Toyota, Uber, and Waymo have signed on as the first participants.
According to AV industry coalition PAVE, no AV developer has even hinted that AV riders would be able to choose to trade off safety for speed.
To avoid the other two-thirds, driverless cars will have to be designed for safety rather than rider preference when those two are at odds, according to a study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
As the nation’s largest retailer, Amazon is positioning itself to build its own logistics network.
The largest windfalls from autonomous services won’t come from making driverless cars or advertising in them. Look instead to what Google does best when disrupting and democratizing technology.
Starsky Robotics had to give up on its goal of truly driverless trucks earlier this year after failing to secure additional needed funding. HDT Equipment Editor Jim Park recently spoke to founder Stefan Seltz-Axmacher about what happened and why true self-driving truck technology may be harder than we think.
General Motors is updating its semi-autonomous driving system to function not only on highways but also on city streets.
Locomation will test at the Transportation Research Center to advance its autonomous truck-platooning platforms alongside TRC’s research and development team.
Tesla has released internal data showing the number of crashes its electric cars in the U.S. have incurred with Autopilot engaged compared to the national average of automobile crashes.
The autonomous vehicle is intended for fixed, repeatable routes between distribution centers and stores, which reduces autonomous travel’s problematic “edge cases.”
The move is prompted by the need to evaluate the long-term impact of COVID-19 on customer behaviors.
Beep is using its autonomous shuttle to deliver to healthcare workers. To limit delivery contact, each pizza box is sealed, put onto a cart, loaded into the shuttle, and then secured by the onboard shuttle attendant.
The tests, which were also conducted by Virginia Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) and DroneUp, evaluated the commercial drone industry’s ability to assist the U.S. healthcare system during the coronavirus crisis.
As companies around the globe move to cash in on the rapidly emerging last-mile delivery segment, autonomous methods of delivery, from self-driving vans to drones to mall delivery robots, are being developed to help get everything from pizzas to parcels into the hands of customers.
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