Tuesday 25 October 2016

Driverless truck from Uber’s Otto makes beer delivery in Colorado

A self-driving truck built by Uber’s unit Otto made a pioneering delivery of beer in Colorado last week, Otto announced Tuesday. The 18-wheel semi loaded down with Budweiser made the 120 mile (200 kilometer) trip from Fort Collins through the center of crowded Denver to Colorado Springs using only its panoply of cameras, radar and sensors to read the road. The truck carried a professional driver, but he simply monitored the progress from the truck’s sleeper berth behind the driver’s seat. The trip was a fairly straight two-hour drive south on the I-25 highway, “exit-to-exit”, the company said in a statement, suggesting the initial and final stretches off the highway were handled by a driver.
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