It will be still be quite awhile before autonomous vehicles become an active part of the trucking industry; and even then, the technology won’t replace truck drivers, says the president…
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Budget 2017 provided some much-needed attention to freight transportation planning in Canada, including a new National Trade Corridors Fund to help address capacity constraints and freight bottlenecks at major ports…
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Efforts to electronically link all the disparate components on trucks with each other as well as the outside world will disrupt the industry, according to experts at the Technology &…
Connected Truck, Disruptive Truck Read more...
American Trucking Associations CEO Chris Spear says widespread acceptance of autonomous technology is still 20 to 25 years away, but until then the trucking industry needs to take a seat…
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The Congressional Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade said recently that autonomous vehicles will save lives on the highways, with Mark Rosekind, National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator, claiming that autonomous…
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Autonomous vehicles are emerging faster than many people expected, but perhaps things should slow down a bit, suggests the Governors Highway Safety Association suggests As reported by Fleet Owner, a…
Govs’ report: Public Skepticism of Autonomous Vehicles ‘High’ Read more...
The potential for autonomous trucks to disrupt freight transportation—or at least the recognition, by carriers and shippers, of that possibility—has surged in the past year, according to an updated survey by…
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Amazon has been granted a patent proposing a centralized roadway management system that communicates with self-driving vehicles to help coordinate their movement at a large scale and deal with complex…
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U.S. Department of Transportation announced this week he will establish an advisory committee on automated transportation, meant to help regulators frame policy around the development and deployment of automated vehicles….
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