How safe are these trucks? The safety of autonomous trucks is a primary concern. Aurora's 2025 Driverless Safety Report outlines five key principles to ensure safe operation: proficiency, fail-safety, ...

Somewhere on Interstate 45 between Dallas and Houston, a Peterbilt 579 is hauling a full trailer of commercial freight at highway speed. The cab is empty. No driver, no safety operator, no one riding ...

A big rig left Houston, Texas, in the middle of the night with nobody inside. By morning, it had completed a 230-mile delivery near Dallas right on schedule. There was no driver, no backup operator ...

It looked like just another big rig rolling down a Texas interstate, a sight that inspired a thousand country songs. But this delivery in May was different because there was no driver at the wheel.

California just decided that it wants to update its autonomous vehicle (AV) regulations. If the changes it proposed go through unchanged, it’ll allow for AV companies to test heavy-duty trucks in the ...

The California DMV has unveiled plans to eventually allow driverless trucks on highways across the state. As the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit first reported last year, self-driving big rigs have ...

Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary McLane is planning to deploy unsupervised self-driving trucks powered by technology from Aurora Innovation on big rig routes in Texas and across the U.S. Sun Belt by the ...

There are active test runs in Texas, and a handful of companies are banking on making a big entry into the market as early as next year. By Jim Motavalli This is a return of Wheels, a column on the ...