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by derwiki 6y ago
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> TuSimple is hardly the only company working to making fully automated shipping a reality. Several companies, including Aurora, Daimler, and Embark Trucks, are competing for a slice of the future of self-driving freight trucks. Alphabet-owned Waymo confirmed on Tuesday that it will be expanding its own self-driving trucking routes throughout the American Southwest and Texas, following previous tests in Arizona, California, Michigan, and Georgia
- lotsofpulp 6y ago“Real options” means available to purchase, in my opinion. None of those are ready for any truck company to replace their drivers with.
- derwiki 6y agoGotcha, sounds like a miscommunication. I meant real as in, people are working on it and it’s not vaporware. In the same way that I don’t see autonomous plumbing companies when I search.
- scollet 6y agoI actually see plumbers getting highly specialized as the infra gets more sohpisticated. Automation in that regard is probably a later iteration of the automated household where now we have auxillary vacuums, embedded iot light controllers, and so forth.