Category: autonomous truck

Volvo Trucks’ autonomous vehicle is hauling goods in Sweden

Post author By Randall
Post date June 14, 2019
Categories In autonomous, autonomous truck, gear, gothenburg, green, logistics, shipping, sustainability, sweden, Tech, tomorrow, transport, Transportation, trucking, trucks, vera, Volvo

[ad_1] Ultimately, Volvo hopes to have several autonomous vehicles traveling back and forth at once. They’ll be monitored by a control tower and max out at 40 km/h. While Vera is suited for short distances, it will be able to transport large volumes, and Volvo hopes it will offer greater efficiency, flexibility and sustainability. “Autonomous […]

Daimler has a plan to get autonomous trucks ready for the road

Post author By Randall
Post date May 29, 2019
Categories In automated trucks, autonomous truck, Autonomous Vehicles, business, Daimler, daimler trucks, Tech, tomorrow, Transportation

[ad_1] The eventual goal for Daimler has been long-haul trucks with Level 4 autonomy, or vehicles that can drive themselves with only optional human intervention. The trucks would only travel between defined hubs, such as from a warehouse to a facility, without the expectation that humans would need to take over the steering wheel. Other […]

Einride’s autonomous truck begins daily delivery test in Sweden

Post author By Randall
Post date May 16, 2019
Categories In autonomous truck, Autonomous Vehicles, av, einride, gear, Internet, robert falck, sweden, Tech, tpod, Transportation

[ad_1] Several times a day, the T-Pod truck will travel a distance of 300 meters (or less than a quarter of a mile) from a warehouse to a freight terminal building. Einride says the test, due to conclude at the end of 2020, is the first time an autonomous truck with no backup driver has […]