Watch Uber’s Self-Driving Trucks Moving Freight Across Arizona

The autonomous truck is already here. On Tuesday, Uber revealed that its vehicles are already moving freight across Arizona, the first steps toward a model where self-driving vehicles are used to deliver loads along highways with human drivers taking over at either end.

“We’ve been really hard at work for the last several months improving the technology, improving the performance of the system, and also working on building a product that can exist in the real world and solve real problems,” Alden Woodrow, Uber’s self-driving truck product lead, told reporters. “The team is hopeful that its solution will “make truck drivers’ lives and jobs better.”

The truck uses the technology under development by the Uber Advanced Technology Group, the team also working on the company’s autonomous taxi project. In June 2017, the company announced it was dropping all Otto branding, the autonomous truck company it acquired in August 2016. It also planned to use a 64-channel spinning lidar array on Volvo vehicles using Uber’s in-house software stack. The Uber trucks can use the mapping data accumulated from the cars, meaning time spend on the road benefits the vehicles across the board.


Source : Yahoo