Aurora, FedEx team up on driverless tech to address trucker shortage

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Autonomous vehicle company Aurora recently launched a partnership with FedEx (FDX) to test the use of self-driving trucks to ship goods between Dallas and Houston.

The project features an operator in the truck to oversee the system in its initial stage, though Aurora plans to launch a driverless version of the experiment within the next two years.The trucks will travel a route measuring almost 500-miles to help FedEx deliver packages across the state of Texas.

Aurora looks to help ease the shortage of drivers in the trucking industry using new autonomous vehicle technology. “We think that the value of the automation of the Aurora driver is really profound,” said Aurora CEO Chris Urmson in a recent interview with Yahoo Finance Live. That in the US, "We have a dramatic shortage of drivers today… And so for our partners being able to provide a driver to complement the human drivers that they have out there to support that [would be valuable].”

Autonomous vehicles, he said, wouldn’t be limited by hours of service regulations, “so you can effectively shrink the country and make it easier for goods to move around and deliver those goods to consumers and manufacturing systems, or manufacturing companies quicker.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/aurora-fedex-team-up-on-driverless-tech-to-address-trucker-shortage/ar-AAP5O7x

We'll see. I'm still a bit skeptical about driverless technology.

[soryang]

1. I'm skeptical also

I can imagine the schemes that will be adopted by the manufacturers and operators to try to avoid the product liability suits that result after the first several accidents.