Trucking Blog
Trucking Jobs
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
General Topics
Trucking News
FedEx (FDX) to test the use of self-driving trucks between Dallas and Houston
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="BirdMan" data-source="post: 87" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>Autonomous vehicle company Aurora recently launched a partnership with FedEx (<a href="https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/FDX?p=FDX&.tsrc=fin-srch" target="_blank">FDX</a>) to test the use of self-driving trucks to ship goods between Dallas and Houston.</p><p></p><p>Aurora looks to help ease the shortage of drivers in the trucking industry using new autonomous vehicle technology. “We think that the value of the automation of the Aurora driver is really profound,” said Aurora CEO Chris Urmson in a recent interview with Yahoo Finance Live. That in the US, "We have a dramatic shortage of drivers today… And so for our partners being able to provide a driver to complement the human drivers that they have out there to support that [would be valuable].”</p><p></p><p>Autonomous vehicles, he said, wouldn’t be limited by hours of service regulations, “so you can effectively shrink the country and make it easier for goods to move around and deliver those goods to consumers and manufacturing systems, or manufacturing companies quicker.”</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aurora-fed-ex-team-up-on-driverless-tech-to-address-trucker-shortage-141506961.html[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BirdMan, post: 87, member: 3"] Autonomous vehicle company Aurora recently launched a partnership with FedEx ([URL='https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/FDX?p=FDX&.tsrc=fin-srch']FDX[/URL]) to test the use of self-driving trucks to ship goods between Dallas and Houston. Aurora looks to help ease the shortage of drivers in the trucking industry using new autonomous vehicle technology. “We think that the value of the automation of the Aurora driver is really profound,” said Aurora CEO Chris Urmson in a recent interview with Yahoo Finance Live. That in the US, "We have a dramatic shortage of drivers today… And so for our partners being able to provide a driver to complement the human drivers that they have out there to support that [would be valuable].” Autonomous vehicles, he said, wouldn’t be limited by hours of service regulations, “so you can effectively shrink the country and make it easier for goods to move around and deliver those goods to consumers and manufacturing systems, or manufacturing companies quicker.” [URL unfurl="true"]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aurora-fed-ex-team-up-on-driverless-tech-to-address-trucker-shortage-141506961.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
General Topics
Trucking News
FedEx (FDX) to test the use of self-driving trucks between Dallas and Houston
Top