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Can a Self-Driving 40-Ton Truck Be Safe?

Shipping companies and software developers are experimenting with self-driving trucks as a way to solve a driver shortage worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing fire from safety advocates who ...

Liberty Mutual and TuSimple to Assess Autonomous Truck Safety

Liberty Mutual Insurance plans to work with TuSimple, a self-driving technology company, to assess if autonomous trucks are safer than human-driven vehicles. Specifically, the companies will compare ...

Tesla Developing Self-Driving Trucks, Pushing for Tests in Nevada

Tesla Inc is developing a long-haul, electric semi-truck that can drive itself and move in "platoons" that automatically follow a lead vehicle, and is getting closer to testing a prototype, according ...

First Self-Driving Commercial Shipment: Uber Truck Makes Beer Delivery

A tractor trailer full of beer drove itself down Colorado's I-25 last week with nobody behind the wheel. Uber Technologies Inc. and Anheuser-Busch InBev NV teamed up on the delivery, which they said ...

Uber Embraces Self-Driving Trucks With Otto Acquisition

Ride service Uber Technologies Inc said on Thursday it has acquired the self-driving trucks startup Otto, and it also announced that Volvo Car Group has agreed to a $300 million alliance to develop ...