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Autonomous Vehicles Reality Check Part 3: Robots Moving Freight
December 28, 2022
Trucking use cases suitable for automated driving are rapidly proliferating. In this final installment of my Autonomous Vehicles Reality Check series, here's an in-depth run-down and outlook.
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Autonomous Vehicles Reality Check Part 2: Robots Moving People
December 22, 2022
When it comes to Autonomous Vehicles, the dynamics of the technical, operational, and business factors are diverse. This Part Two of a three-part article series examines AV-enabled people-carrying. And, what it takes to survive in the current economic climate.
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Autonomous Vehicles Reality Check Part 1: The Argo.ai Headline That Got Buried
December 20, 2022
The term “trough of disillusionment” is being thrown around willy-nilly in the AV space. The trigger? Argo.ai’s shutdown. The same journalists who piled on the positive hype about automated driving years ago are now piling on to its demise. From another angle, the situation looks very different.
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Gatik Notches Yet Another Major Customer In Pitney Bowes, With Latest Automated Trucking Deployment In Dallas
August 31, 2022
Starting in early 2023, Gatik’s autonomous class 6 fleet will establish a continuous, operational loop across the Pitney Bowes e-commerce logistics network in Dallas.
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Gatik And Cummins Partner For Powertrain Optimization
August 23, 2022
Gatik announced today that it will collaborate with Cummins Inc. to facilitate the integration of Gatik's automated driving system with Cummins’ advanced powertrain solution in Gatik’s fleet of medium-duty trucks.
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Live And In-Person: Embark And Texas Law Enforcement Simulate The Real Thing
August 8, 2022
Working closely with the Texas law enforcement personnel, Embark has demonstrated the capability for their trucks to identify and stop for law enforcement vehicles.
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Embark And Texas DPS Partner To Develop Best Practices For Officers To Pull Over Automated Trucks
June 18, 2022
Truck automation developer Embark has taken a strong step into a space that every truck ADS developer must navigate: how to detect, respond to, and communicate with law enforcement while traveling public roads.
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Short-Haul Freight Is Evolving Fast: Gatik, Georgia-Pacific And KBX Announce Commercial Partnership For Driverless Trucks Serving Sam’s Club Stores
June 7, 2022
Self-driving truck developer Plus announced today that it has selected Velociti as the deployment and maintenance partner for its national Plus Build program
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Plus Partners With Velociti To Install PlusDrive On Existing Truck Tractors
May 9, 2022
Self-driving truck developer Plus announced today that it has selected Velociti as the deployment and maintenance partner for its national Plus Build program
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Self-Driving Cars: An Epidemic Of Questionable Assertions
February 21, 2022
Self-driving vehicles require relentless scrutiny. However, some fundamental misunderstandings cause industry observers to make broad definitive statements with very little to back up their conclusions.
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Truck Automation Players Take Las Vegas By Storm At Manifest 2022
February 2, 2022
Manifest delivered an unprecedented gathering of leaders from ADS truck companies along with their automation capable trucks.
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Trucking Insurance In The Age Of Automation: Startup Koop Technologies Raises $2.5 Million Seed Round.
September 1, 2021
There’s a new player entering the automated trucking scene, addressing a gap in the complex world of vehicle insurance. Koop Technologies, an insurance technology startup specializing in autonomous vehicle and robotics risk, recently announced $2.5M in seed funding.
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Platooning In The Woods: Robotic Research And FPInnovations Partner To Adapt Automated Truck Technology To Challenging New Settings
May 12, 2021
Driverless truck technology is being adapted to double the amount of lumber one driver can transport from a harvesting site to a sawmill.
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Automating With Gas: Plus And Cummins Developing Natural Gas Powered Self-Driving Trucks
April 27, 2021
Self-driving truck developer Plus has announced a new initiative with global engine manufacturer Cummins to develop “the industry’s first driver-in, supervised autonomous trucks powered by natural gas.”
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Making Redundancy Cool: Gatik And Isuzu Partner To Develop Level 4 Capable Medium-Duty Trucks
April 6, 2021
Fully driverless goods movement may well start with Gatik’s medium duty trucks, scaling quickly given their partnerships with major national retailers.
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The Bane Of Automated Driving: Embark And Arizona DOT To Address Highway Work Zones
March 29, 2021
Embark and Arizona DOT partner to address one of the gnarliest issues facing deployment of automated trucking: highway work zones.
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Motional Initiates Testing Of Driverless Vehicles In Las Vegas
Feb 22, 2021
Motional is initiating driverless operations on public roads in Las Vegas, as a precursor to a major rollout in 2023 with Lyft.
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Plus Raises $200 Million In New Funding As Automated Trucking Juggernaut Gains Momentum
Feb 10, 2021
Plus, a developer of automated trucks, has announced the completion of a $200 million funding round to accelerate the commercialization and deployment of its ADS globally -- with first products later this year.
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Boring! Kodiak’s Trucks Calmly Drive Themselves While Safety Driver Watches
Jan 11, 2021
Kodiak calls their series of no-intervention long-haul freight runs “a major milestone.”
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Emerging From Stealth, NODAR Introduces “Hammerhead 3D Vision” Platform For Automated Driving
Jan 7, 2021
NODAR aims to displace LiDAR with a breakthrough perception approach based on long baseline stereo vision.
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Walmart Says ‘Game On’ For Driverless Freight
Dec 20, 2020
Walmart steps to the fore of the driverless freight movement in announcing the start of truly driverless operations beginning next year, powered by Gatik.
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Gatik And Loblaw Partner To Bring First-Ever Driverless Deliveries To Canada
Nov 23, 2020
Canada is poised to see driverless commercial delivery of goods come to Toronto, thanks to startup Gatik bagging a $25M infusion of capital plus a partnership with Canada’s largest retailer.
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Plus Safety Report Stakes Out ‘High Mileage’ Approach To Deploying Driverless Trucks
Oct 30, 2020
In their newly-released Safety Report, Plus asserts that safe deployment of driverless trucking requires billions of miles of on-road testing.
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Outrider’s $65 Million Fundraise Signals Strong ‘Green Light’ For AV Trucking
Oct 28, 2020
The business space and investment climate for automation in goods movement is highly promising, as evidenced by Outrider's recent raise. Commercial deployments are happening “at the edges” right now.
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New Moves, New Markets For Truck Platooning Revealed At AVS2020
Sep 27, 2020
The platooning business case remains sound and strengthens substantially with drone followers. AVS2020 provided intriguing insights into new markets. Upcoming moves by startups and the traditional vehicle industry will be interesting to watch.
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Driverless Trucking Not Slowing Down But The Ride Is Getting Bumpier
Sep 20, 2020
Key “solo driverless” developers exchanged viewpoints at the recent Automated Vehicles Symposium. The industry is clearly at a turning point. What's ahead?
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The Wild West Is Starting To Settle Down And Get The Job Done: 2020 Automated Vehicles Symposium
Sep 5, 2020
The recent Automated Vehicles Symposium provided a superb update on all things automated driving. Here are some key take-aways.
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In An Industry First, Plus.ai To Submit Their Self-Driving Trucks To Independent Testing
Jul 21, 2020
Self-driving truck developer Plus.ai announced today they have finalized an agreement with the Transportation Research Center to conduct rigorous independent testing of their Automated Driving System in realistic conditions.
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“Disciplined Innovation:” Kodiak Robotics Releases Safety Self-Assessment
Jun 11, 2020
Kodiak Robotics' nearly fifty-page Safety Report comprehensively covers the many factors, technical and non-technical, of developing driverless trucks.
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U.S. States Are Allowing Automated Follower Truck Platooning While The Swedes May Lead In Europe
May 2, 2020
As an early form of deployed truck automation, new use cases are emerging for truck platooning. Within the next year, we'll see commercial launch of 1st generation highway systems, while development of 2nd generation automated following accelerates.
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Starsky Robotics Failed. Does That Mean Automated Trucking Is Dead?
Mar 24, 2020
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Playing Chicken On Independence Avenue: Just Another Waymo Day
Mar 5, 2020
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Outrider Brings Unique Truck Automation Approach To Logistics Yards
Feb 20, 2020
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Fatalities Are Falling While Driver Irresponsibility Is Rising
Jan 26, 2020
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USDOT’s Automated Vehicles 4.0 Seeks “Unifying Theme” Across Federal Government
Jan 10, 2020
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Europe Is Poised For A Revolution In Road Safety While The U.S. Lags Behind
Dec 20, 2019
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To Get Safer, We Don’t Need To Wait For Automated Driving
Dec 17, 2019
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Uber’s 2018 Pedestrian Fatality Proves Once Again That Humans Are Dangerous
Nov 22, 2019
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Gasoline Or Batteries For Robo-taxis? It Depends.
Oct 29, 2019
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What’s So Bad About Zombie Robotaxis?
Oct 27, 2019
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Afraid Of Self-Driving Car Testing On Public Roads? Compared To What?
Oct 11, 2019
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What Tesla’s Grab Of DeepScale Is All About.
Oct 4, 2019
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Is 2020 The Year For Eyes-Off Automated Driving?
Oct 1, 2019
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OEDR: The Key Differentiator Between SAE Level 2 And Level 3 Automated Driving
Sep 11, 2019
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Where Does Auto-Follower Platooning Fit Within The Driverless Truck Ecosystem?
Aug 30, 2019
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