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Walgreens, Google Affiliate Wing to Launch Drone Delivery Test

Walgreens and a Google affiliate are testing drone deliveries that can put drugstore products on customer doorsteps minutes after being ordered.

September 20, 2019

Why Truck Makers Are Skipping Level 3

What do the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447 and a seminal 2012 study by Google on how people interact with self-driving cars have in common?

September 20, 2019

Self-Driving Trucks: A Reality Check

No discussion of the future of the trucking industry is complete without considering the advance of automated driving technology, and how it might support the movement of freight in the years and decades ahead.

September 20, 2019

Automated Trucking Levels Up

After several years of fanfare and debate over when and how self-driving commercial vehicles would reach the market, early forms of this technology are beginning to become an option in new trucks.

September 20, 2019

Pronto Aims for 'Crash-Proof Trucks'

CENTREVILLE, Va. —While some self-driving truck developers are focused on building a future when heavy-duty vehicles will operate autonomously on the highway, another startup has already begun to commercialize an automated driving system that it believes is market-ready today.

September 20, 2019

Tech Startups Cite Progress on Path to Self-Driving Trucks

Over the past year, startups working to commercialize highly auto­mated heavy-duty trucks competed for more capital and engineers, and each pushed deeper into systems development.

September 20, 2019

Experts Discuss Challenges and Opportunities of Drone Delivery

Drones can offer an appealing alternative to traditional cargo delivery methods, according to Daniel Friedenzohn, associate dean of the College of Aviation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

September 19, 2019

DOT Announces $60 Million in Grants for Automated Projects

The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced $60 million in awards to research groups and state departments of transportation that are exploring projects related to vehicle automation.

September 18, 2019

Perspective: Preparing for Autonomous Repairs

As more and more vehicles with autonomous components enter the transportation landscape, the issue of repair and maintenance for those systems becomes more important for trucking fleets.

September 18, 2019