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voidxA to Autonomous VehiclesEnglish · 1 month ago

Aurora Begins Commercial Driverless Trucking in Texas

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Aurora Begins Commercial Driverless Trucking in Texas

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voidxA to Autonomous VehiclesEnglish · 1 month ago
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Aurora Begins Commercial Driverless Trucking in Texas, Ushering in a New Era of Freight
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With roundtrip driverless hauls between Dallas and Houston occurring on a regular basis, the company is the first to deploy a self-driving class…...
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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksM
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    Has anyone heard of Aurora before? It’s pretty big for them to causually launch an SAE L4 system. I wish they went into more details on the sensor suite and software architecture these trucks use.

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    Arent driverless trucks just Trains in worse?

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksM
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      For cross-country freight, yeah. For last mile deliveries within large cities or to smaller towns, that’s not really something that trains can effectively cover.

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    “completed 1,200 miles of safety testing”?

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksM
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      Yeah, that seems… low, doesn’t it?

      • pdxfed@lemmy.world
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        Not when someone has probably unfunded, disbanded or declared superfluous the NHTSB as someone benefits immensely from putting you in danger

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