Smart Freight Corridor: Driverless trucks on Texas’s fastest highway
The future has come to Texas – driverless trucks are now thundering along a stretch of Austin highway. The “Smart Freight Corridor” is a 21-mile stretch of State Highway 130 in the Austin area – the fastest highway in Texas – covering the highway region from Georgetown to Mustang Ridge. The Texas Department of Transportation unveiled in November […]
Aurora begins nighttime driverless operations in Texas
Aurora Innovation, the autonomous trucking technology developer, has announced a significant expansion of its commercial operations, including surpassing 20,000 driverless miles at the end of June, recently growing its driverless fleet to three trucks, beginning driverless commercial operations at night, and opening a new Phoenix terminal. CCJ Digital reports that Aurora has been operating “driverless” […]
Aurora to trial driverless trucks in bad weather
Aurora Innovation says its driverless trucks will eventually be equipped to handle tough weather conditions, but only after their commercial debut in Texas later this year. The company confirmed this week that its self-driving trucks will begin operating commercially in Texas in April and will expand to routes in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona in […]
Experts have their say on the driverless future
Over six hundred experts in the driverless mobility space converged on San Diego to share progress and debate what the future should look like on our roads. The Automated Road Transportation Symposium leading companies deploying driverless vehicles laid out their latest progress and plans for expansion. Participants from overseas provided their unique viewpoints and rolled […]
Could driverless trucks’ biggest obstacle be the legal system?
The driverless trucking revolution will start with a whimper this year and, if Aurora Innovation Inc. is successful, it will stay that way. Aurora is still committed to begin operating autonomous 18-wheelers hauling cargo on a 200-mile run between its terminals near Dallas and Houston by the end of December or perhaps earlier, says Bloomberg. While other […]
Autonomous trucks hit the road in the US
On a three-lane test track along the Monongahela River, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board. A quarter-mile ahead, the truck’s sensors spotted a trash can blocking one lane and a tire in another. In less than a second, it signaled, moved into the unobstructed lane and rumbled past the obstacles, […]