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Einride Autonomous trucking firm Einride has deployed its driverless vehicle at a GE Appliances facility in Selmer, Tennessee. The electric, cabless truck is now undertaking full time operations at the site, transporting finished products between GE Appliances’ manufacturing facility and its Selmer warehouse, Monday through Thursday. The driverless, zero-emissions vehicle is conducting as many as seven shuttles a day along the 0.3-mile (0.48-kilometer) private road, Sweden-based Einride said on Monday. GE Appliances…

Waymo Six years after launching its autonomous-truck program, Waymo has said it’s decided to focus more on developing its ridesharing ambitions using its self-driving cars and minivans. The California-based, Alphabet-owned company said its decision to effectively put autonomous trucking on the back burner is down to the “tremendous momentum and substantial commercial opportunity” that it’s seeing with the pilot ridesharing service it launched in Arizona in 2018 before taking it to several other states. Customers…

The U.S. military’s long, often winding road to rolling out autonomous vehicles has, to this point, mostly disappointed energetic technologists eager to see human drivers eliminated from combat scenarios. Though the Pentagon’s largest research agency has spent the better part of two decades fiddling with autonomous tech, now the Department of Defense is turning to a California-based startup company to fast track its use of autonomous vehicles for “high-risk” missions. This week, autonomous trucking startup Kodiak Robotics…

Ikea and Kodiak Robotics have been working together since August. Image: Warren Little (Getty Images)Ikea is stepping into the future: The Swedish furniture retail giant is testing out autonomous delivery vehicles in Texas with help from Kodiak Robotics.Ikea has tapped Kodiak Robotics, a California-based robotics company specializing in autonomous vehicles like delivery trucks, for help on a new pilot program to test autonomous delivery to Ikea stores. Per Kodiak, the company and Ikea have been in cooperation with each…

Leading autonomous-truck developer blames human error, while analysts say it is the technology; regulators are investigating Leading autonomous-truck developer blames human error, while analysts say it is the technology; regulators are investigating FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all…