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April 30, 2024

Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads

  • Within three or four years, thousands of self-driving tractor-trailers are expected to travel on America's freeways.
    • By TOM KRISHER
    AP Auto Writer

    Image from https://aurora.tech/
    Late this year, Aurora Innovation Inc. plans to start hauling freight between the Dallas and Houston areas with 20 driverless trucks.

    PITTSBURGH — On a three-lane test track along the Monongahela River, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board.


     
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