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Truck Firms Open Autonomous Door at CES
January 11, 2018
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TRB Picks New Leaders, Honors Others for Service, Achievements
WASHINGTON 鈥 Each year, the annual meeting of Transportation Research Board brings together industry stakeholders from around the world to feast on a sm枚rg氓sbord of facts and figures, ideas, analysis and exhibits that push the frontier of geekiness.
January 11, 2018GovernmentTechnologyEquipmentSafetyAutonomous
US Regulators Eye Policy for Autonomous Trucks
Federal regulators are taking the first step toward creating a policy to guide the development of autonomous transportation beyond cars to include trucks, buses and other ground-based modes.
January 10, 2018BusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafetyLogisticsAutonomous
Ford Partners With Postmates in Path to Driverless Delivery
Ford Motor Co. is expanding its driverless delivery experiment beyond pizza by partnering with Postmates to test what it will take to eventually remove the driver from on-demand distribution.
January 9, 2018BusinessTechnologyEquipmentAutonomousTCA
Pizza Hut Working With Toyota to Test Driverless Pizza Delivery
Toyota and Pizza Hut announced Jan. 8 a 鈥済lobal partnership,鈥 that could see Pizza Hut pizzas delivered in autonomous vehicles designed and built by Toyota.
January 8, 2018BusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafetyAutonomousTCA
Self-Driving Car Firm Aurora to Expand After Deal With VW, Hyundai
Deals inked by the self-driving car firm Aurora with two major auto manufacturers will mean more jobs and more test vehicles on the streets in Pittsburgh, one of the company鈥檚 co-founders told the Tribune-Review.
January 8, 2018GovernmentTechnologyEquipmentSafetyAutonomous
Interstates Serve Important Role in Autonomous Truck Testing, Experts Say
WASHINGTON鈥 Long-distance stretches of interstate will serve as an important proving grounds as autonomous truck technology develops, industry experts said at the Transportation Research Board's annual meeting Jan. 8.
January 8, 2018BusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafetyAutonomousTCA
Self-Driving Cars Hit Las Vegas Streets for Tech Tradeshow
LAS VEGAS 鈥 The self-driving car is getting closer to deployment in the real world for everyday passengers.
January 8, 2018GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafetyAutonomous
Can Bridges Handle Weight of Platooning Trucks? Engineering Firm Wants to Know
WASHINGTON 鈥 While truck-to-truck communication, driver training and safety have advanced the effort to hasten platooning to market, another critical aspect is looming and just may cause momentum to pull back some: the impact on infrastructure.
January 7, 2018BusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafetyAutonomous
Peloton Pledges Commercial Platooning in 2018
2018 could bring commercial applications of truck platooning after successful demonstrations of the driver-assisted technology last month in Florida and Michigan by platooning developer Peloton Technology.
January 4, 2018