Tag: self-driving truck

August 6, 2019

DON BURNETTE AND Paz Eshel are Silicon Valley, through and through. Burnette is a veteran of Google’s self-driving car project and Otto, the robotic trucking company acquired by Uber. Eshel has a background in venture capital, and his résumé is […]

October 2, 2018

IF ANYTHING HAS changed between today and the halcyon days of 2016, it’s that those building and marketing self-driving tech are now less… promise-y. The robots are still coming, the software developers and hardware mavens and balance sheet-wielding CEOs insist. […]

November 28, 2016

Just weeks after making what it called the world’s first shipment by a self-driving truck, Otto plans to travel a 35-mile stretch of U.S. Route 33 in Ohio on Nov. 28 in another test of its autonomous technology. The truck […]

September 9, 2016

Volvo said it is testing its fully autonomous truck about 4,000 feet underground in a mine in Northern Sweden. The truck is part of a project to improve mine safety and transport flow and will cover a distance of about […]