From Waymo:
As we enter into the holiday season, this year’s delivery demand and the need for freight movement remains unprecedented, and Waymo Via will help fill critical needs for our partners during this time. That’s why we’re expanding our partnership with UPS to autonomous freight movement with Class 8 trucks, a natural next step following the strong and successful partnership we’ve had testing local delivery.
Over the next several weeks, we’ll conduct autonomous trial runs together using our Waymo Via Class 8 trucks equipped with the fifth-generation Waymo Driver. These trial runs will take place in Texas, where the Waymo Driver will deliver for UPS’s North American Air Freight unit between facilities in Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston. We hope to gather early learnings about how autonomous driving technology can help enhance safety and efficiency, evaluate the performance of the autonomous system and successful delivery of freight, and understand how to refine our autonomous operations in this use case for eventual scaling.
blog.waymo.com
From other sources, the trucks will have a driver, and a computer geek monitoring the software for problems, both in every truck, every trip.
This is just one of multiple announcements of things that are supposed to be happening. Hopefully, unlike other announcements, we will get solid follow up on how the trips went. Reality? we will get no solid details, only that it was successful.
I want to see these things with a 24/7 live feed monitoring the entire cab to see how things truly go.
As we enter into the holiday season, this year’s delivery demand and the need for freight movement remains unprecedented, and Waymo Via will help fill critical needs for our partners during this time. That’s why we’re expanding our partnership with UPS to autonomous freight movement with Class 8 trucks, a natural next step following the strong and successful partnership we’ve had testing local delivery.
Over the next several weeks, we’ll conduct autonomous trial runs together using our Waymo Via Class 8 trucks equipped with the fifth-generation Waymo Driver. These trial runs will take place in Texas, where the Waymo Driver will deliver for UPS’s North American Air Freight unit between facilities in Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston. We hope to gather early learnings about how autonomous driving technology can help enhance safety and efficiency, evaluate the performance of the autonomous system and successful delivery of freight, and understand how to refine our autonomous operations in this use case for eventual scaling.
Waymo Via expands partnership with UPS to autonomous freight movement with Class 8 trucks
As we enter into the holiday season, this year’s delivery demand and the need for freight movement remains unprecedented, and Waymo Via will help fill critical needs for our partners during this time. That’s why we’re expanding <a...
blog.waymo.com
From other sources, the trucks will have a driver, and a computer geek monitoring the software for problems, both in every truck, every trip.
This is just one of multiple announcements of things that are supposed to be happening. Hopefully, unlike other announcements, we will get solid follow up on how the trips went. Reality? we will get no solid details, only that it was successful.
I want to see these things with a 24/7 live feed monitoring the entire cab to see how things truly go.
