Waymo, Alphabet Inc.'s autonomous driving unit, is expanding work with J.B. Hunt and that the U.S. freight-hauling giant will be the first commercial customer for its robotic truck services. Lowell, Arkansas-based J.B. Hunt, which began a pilot program with Waymo Via, the tech company's logistics operation, last year hauling cargo in test runs on the I-45 freeway in Texas. Now the plan is for it to be Waymo Via's first freight partner "when we deploy fully autonomous operations in Texas the next few years," Waymo said in a blog post. Ahead of that, the companies will expand their test runs using Waymo's automated big rigs (with human safety drivers as backups). This strategic alliance "paves the way for us both to help grow the foundations for successful deployment and to capitalize on the benefits of autonomous driving technology," said Charlie Jatt, Waymo's head of commercialization for trucking. The Alphabet unit already generates a small amount of revenue from its on-demand robotaxi service in suburban Phoenix, with plans to expand that offering in the San Francisco Bay region. Yet autonomous trucks and delivery services are quickly becoming a core application of the technology it's been developing for more than a decade,… Read full this story
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