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Working together with major truck makers and industry suppliers, self-driving truck companies are preparing factories for mass production of driverless trucks.

Torc is working with the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute through a state planning grant intended to help shape training for jobs linked to autonomous truck manufacturing.

Freightliner Cascadias equipped with Torc’s software began testing in Michigan in February, adding to trials already underway on roads in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and in Virginia.

Autonomous trucks require long-range lidar systems to identify objects far ahead and short-range sensors to capture detailed data in complex driving situations.

The German truck maker is working with Bank of America Corp. to sound out potential investors interested in acquiring a minority stake in Torc.

Trucking technology company Aeva announced an expanded partnership with Daimler Truck North America to advance the commercialization of autonomous vehicles.

91ÊÓƵ plans to invest nearly $5.6 million to create an engineering hub in Michigan.

Applied Intuition expects to use the funds to develop its next phase of vehicle intelligence products and expand the company’s product roster and team.

91ÊÓƵ began testing its autonomous trucks on what is expected to be the Daimler Truck subsidiary’s first driverless freight lane between Laredo and Dallas, the parent company said.

Torc has partnered with manufacturing company Flex and artificial intelligence specialist Nvidia to develop a scalable physical AI compute system for autonomous trucks, the company announced.