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Exclusive: Mass Layoffs Reported After Starsky Robotics Fails To Find Buyer, Investors
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 1:56pm | 1124Read More...Autonomous trucking startup Starsky Robotics has laid off the majority of its engineers and office personnel after its fundraising efforts and attempts to find a buyer failed, a former executive says. A skeleton crew remains at the company's headquarters in San Francisco as Starsky co-founders...
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Autonomous Trucks May Come To Dominate UK Ferry Traffic
Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 11:27am | 404Read More...Commercial and environmental pressures will encourage freight operators to look at new and innovative ways to ship freight between the UK and continental Europe in the future, according to a new white paper published by the British Ports Association and MDS Transmodal. One upshot could see...
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By Land Or Sea? Massterly Sees Autonomous Vessels Competing With Trucks
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - 4:09pm | 1131Read More...Massterly Vice President Pia Meling said the company jointly owned by Kongsberg Maritime and Wilhelmsen was not launched to eliminate human jobs. "Our purpose is not to take the jobs of the seafarers on oceangoing ships. It is actually to contribute environmentally friendly and cost-efficient and...
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Autonomous Trucks Reach A New Milestone
Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 3:35pm | 788Read More...Recently I had the opportunity to test-drive Covenant Transport Group's latest addition to its fleet – the amazingly clever automatic Freightliner Cascadia fully equipped with a Detroit engine and drivetrain along with the intelligent ‘Assurance 5.0' suite of safety systems. Suffice to say, we've...
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Volvo Unit Conducts Japan's First Level 4 Autonomous Trucking Demo
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 8:51am | 468Read More...UD Trucks Corp., the Japanese unit of Sweden's AB Volvo, conducted the nation's first public demonstration of Level 4 autonomous trucking, handling farm produce at a sugar processing facility in the country's northernmost main island prefecture of Hokkaido. The test on Thursday, August 29, is...
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Regulators Shift Automated Trucks Into Higher Gear
Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 10:29am | 445Read More...The nation's top truck safety agencies are seeking comments on how to develop regulations addressing fast-moving vehicle automation technology. Advance notices of proposed rulemaking were issued on May 22 by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the National Highway Traffic...
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Starsky Robotics Tests Self-Driving Truck On Florida Highway
Monday, May 20, 2019 - 10:48am | 697Read More...As some technology companies scale back or eliminate their self-driving programs, Starsky Robotics is pushing forward with its autonomous truck technology. The self-driving truck startup completed a series of road tests, with a driver behind the wheel, on a section of the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway...
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Tech Pioneer Levandowski Talks State Of Autonomous Trucking At Transparency 2019
Monday, May 6, 2019 - 10:02pm | 617Read More...After a brief hiatus, technology pioneer Anthony Levandowski has reappeared on the autonomous vehicle scene, but has dialed back his initial vision for driverless trucks in favor of a new safety system designed to assist drivers behind the wheel. Levandowski sat down with John Kingston, editor-at-...
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ValueAct Capital Management Believes Nikola Motor Company Is A Gamechanger In The Freight Industry
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 12:01pm | 669Read More...Jeff Ubben, CEO of San Francisco-based investment firm ValueAct Capital Management, revealed that the firm has invested $30 million to $40 million in hydrogen-electric transport startup Nikola Motor Company in its last raised investment round. Notably, Nikola has set its sights on another round...
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Daimler Shows Why A Level 2 Autonomous Safety Package Should Be Standard On All Trucks
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 9:38am | 1480Read More...The 2020 model year Freightliner New Cascadia features technologies that qualify it as a Level 2 autonomous, but drivers shouldn't be scared off by that. (Photo: Brian Straight/FreightWaves) What happens when a truck driver becomes distracted and pulls his or her attention from the road,...
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Self-Driving Truck Startup TuSimple Raises $95 million, Breaks "Unicorn" Barrier
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 9:37am | 728Read More...TuSimple, a San Diego- and China-based autonomous truck company, announced today it has raised $95 million in Series D funding based on a valuation of $1 billion. The investment brings TuSimple's total funding to date to $178 million. The latest round was led by SINA Corp (NASDAQ: SINA), a...
