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Uber’s Otto completes first shipment by self-driving truck: an autonomous beer run with Budweiser

Avatar for Fred Lambert Oct 25 2016 - 11:27 am PT
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Otto, a self-driving truck startup founded by early team members of Google’s autonomous car program and recently acquired by Uber, announced today that it “completed the world’s first shipment by self-driving cars”.

There are some nuances to the ‘autonomous level’ of the drive, but it’s nonetheless an impressive accomplishment.
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Google self-driving pioneers think big-rigs could get there before cars, started company to prove it

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy May 17 2016 - 9:07 am PT
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Fifteen former Google engineers, including long-time self-driving pioneer Anthony Levandowski, have left the company to create Otto, a start-up based on bringing partial autonomous driving to big-rig trucks.

As the NYT notes, the start-up has great creds: Levandowski designed a self-driving motorcycle while still a grad student, and his first start-up was acquired by Google. Co-founder Lior Ron was previously lead engineer on Google Maps.

Otto’s plan differs from Google’s self-driving car project in two ways …
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