Ford Pro, RAM 1500, Amazon shifting towards renewable natural gas, and Waymo expanding its partnerhsip with UPS are some of the highlights in this episode of Truck Chat.
Waymo Via has expanded its partnership with UPS to test autonomous freight movement with Class 8 trucks.
The 2021 Fleet Forward Conference will feature sessions on electrification, connectivity and autonomous technology for medium- and heavy-duty trucks during its in-person event in San Jose, California, on Nov. 10-12.
An autonomous-truck partnership between Waymo and Daimler will produce a unique version of the Freightliner Cascadia fitted with integrated redundancy for all safety systems, rather than bolt-on components. It will be driven by Waymo's advanced AI driving system, The Waymo Driver.
Waymo is hiring Class A Drivers to monitor autonomous systems during driverless truck tests out of its new Dallas facility.
While agnostic on deployment models and vague on timelines for deployment, Waymo is clear — its end goal is to be a technology provider, not a truck manufacturer or fleet owner.
The National Safety Council's Deborah A.P. Hersman, president and CEO, will leave the organization on Jan. 11 to join California-based Waymo, a self-driving technology company, where she will serve as chief safety officer.
Uber, ATA, Daimler, Toyota, and others have formed a new partnership to study the potential impacts of self-driving vehicles on American workers and the economy.
Waymo-equipped I-PACEs will begin testing in 2018.
Google's autonomous technology division said in a recent blog post it will begin testing self-driving trucks hauling freight to Google data centers in and around Atlanta.
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