Forget drones: These robots are on streets in the US right now.
Autonomous semitrucks are close. We don't seem ready.
Can a line of trucks rumble down the highway by themselves? That's the plan.
The Freightliner Inspiration is a big step forward on the path toward the day when our vehicles drive themselves.
More than 1.4 million Americans work as delivery drivers in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While different companies use these drivers for different purposes, the most common task for delivery drivers is to pick up and/or transport products. From local family-owned businesses to global Fortune 500 companies, countless businesses use delivery drivers. And while some people believe that this occupation…
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We’re not going to be chauffeured around by driverless cars anytime soon, but autonomous delivery vehicles are poised to hit the road.
While crews are working around the clock to clear roads, not everyone is able to stay off of them while they do.
Uber says its drivers can shift to other jobs, but picking up passengers is far easier than training to be a self-driving car mechanic.
Like a cavity that starts at the enamel and eventually hollows out a whole tooth, so too has the larger economy been hollowing out the local capability to be self-reliant.
Managing a fleet can end up being repetitive and less than stimulating unless the fleet manager is bold in decision making and willing to act counterintuitively when it can lead to greater success.
Are Westlake dump trucks driving dangerously through the community, putting everyone at risk of a truck accident?
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As carriers fight for enough humans to keep trucks moving, the evolution of automation has put truck driving in an interesting place. How much longer will a human driver be necessary?
The combination of new technologies such as digitized supply chain, driverless trucks and robotic delivery hubs holds the capability to transform the trucking and logistics sector into an ecosystem of autonomous vehicles very soon.
AUSA: Google does it. Tesla does it. So why isn’t the Army deploying self-driving cars and trucks throughout the world to save lives and move gear without weighing down soldiers? The Army’s chief roboticist, Bob Sadowski, talked with me about what makes it so challenging for the military to design autonomous trucks that can crawl their way through some of the nastiest terrain on Earth without a human to help them.
MIT already has several applications including hybrid car navigation and controlling autonomous underwater vehicles.
The Freightliner Inspiration is the first road ready, mostly autonomous semi in the country, and it gave the world a view of what it could do in early May when it traveled across the Hoover Dam.
They call it the Black Swan - one of those unforeseen events that can have dramatic consequences to the world as we know it. This unmanned cargo vehicle - the brainchild of the Bulgarian startup DRON