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“ Walmart and Silicon Valley start-up Gatik said that, since August, they’ve operated two autonomous box trucks, without a safety driver, on a 7-mile loop daily
by melling 5y ago
“ Walmart and Silicon Valley start-up Gatik said that, since August, they’ve operated two autonomous box trucks, without a safety driver, on a 7-mile loop daily for 12 hours”
It’s a huge step.
Getting past the tipping point where a technology is used daily in business is important because then there’s a sustainable business. Other companies with imitate and iterate.
Sure, we all want perfection to spring from nothing but that never happens.
- ethbr0 5y agoCommercial long-haul warehouse-to-warehouse trucking was always the MVP for self-driving. It has the revenue potential (high utilization), it has the economics (lifetime revenue supports capital investment), and it has the urgency (labor shortage at desired wage level). Unfortunately, everyone wanted to be the sexy consumer darling.