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Uber’s Otto Self-Driving Autonomous Truck Makes It’s First (Budweiser Beer) Run

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…world’s biggest corporations - Apple, Google, Daimler-Benz and countless others - are behind the fast-moving technology that is pushing driverless vehicles. Read: Possibility of Driverless Trucks Offers Hope for Truck Driver Crisis Currently now well beyond the initial testing phase, driverless trucks hold promising technology that can increase highway safety, reduce human error and perhaps ease the chronic driver shortage…

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GE, Caterpillar invest in Clearpath Robotics

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…vehicles at scale. Companies like Google, Tesla and Uber are still testing, whereas our self-driving vehicles are commercially available today.” Companies including GE and John Deere have deployed OTTO’s material handling equipment in their facilities. “The market for self-driving passenger vehicles will be over $80 billion by 2030,” Rendall said. “We believe the market for self-driving materials handling vehicles will…

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Fed Gives Green Light to Driverless Cars

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…a uniform set of policies. Google and Ford are among the top companies pushing driverless car innovations. The 15-point federal checklist, intended to serve as a benchmark for all autonomous vehicles to meet before they go to market, hits on a variety of safety expectations. Among them: Sharing driving data with regulators so they can do root cause analysis on…

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Uber Reportedly Shopping Around For Self-Driving Mercedes-Benz Transportation Fleet

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…using engineers it poached from Google and Carnegie Mellon University. The company recently announced plans to expand its Pittsburgh facility to include a test track for driverless cars. “Uber isn’t valued at more than $50 billion because it’s a ‘taxi app,’ but because investors see Uber as a logistics company.” - Adrian Gonzalez, Adelante SCM Still, purchasing a fleet of…

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General Motors Acquires Cruise Automation to Speed Self-Driving Car Strategy

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…rivals more adept at digital technology strategy, such as Alphabet Inc’s Google or ride-sharing services Uber Technologies Inc. GM is using profits from selling large sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks to buy hedges against that risk. Source: Reuters Related: Making the Leap to Uber Trucking Download the Report: The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be

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