Connectivity The Woman Engineering Uber’s Driverless Trucks Nancy Sun is trying to get driverless trucks on the road and convince truck drivers to trust Uber, too. by Rachel Metz 2017-12-06T16:24:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Hackers Are the Real Obstacle for Self-Driving Vehicles Out-of-work truckers armed with “adversarial machine learning” could dazzle autonomous vehicles into crashing. by Simson Garfinkel 2017-08-22T00:00:00-04:00
Business Impact Uber Freight Is the First Step to Automating Away Truckers First: matching haulers to jobs. Next: leveraging that network to build out fleets of autonomous 18-wheelers. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-05-19T12:25:00-04:00
Smart Cities FedEx Bets on Automation as It Prepares to Fend Off Uber and Amazon The shipping giant is investing in autonomous trucks, and is interested in delivery robots and an Alexa app. by Elizabeth Woyke 2017-02-03T00:00:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines New Patents Hint That Amazon and Google Each Have Plans to Compete with Uber The tech giants both want a slice of the ride-hailer’s automated taxi and trucking vision, and they have their own ideas to prove it. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-01-18T00:55:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Uber Is Betting We’ll See Driverless 18-Wheelers Before Taxis At least one of its self-driving trucks is on the highways around the Bay Area at all hours. by Tom Simonite 2016-09-07T13:04:00-04:00
Sustainable Energy 10-4, Good Computer: Automated System Lets Trucks Convoy as One A recent demonstration involving two trucks tethered by computer control shows how automation and vehicle-to-vehicle communication are creeping onto the roads. by Will Knight 2014-05-28T14:12:00-04:00
