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The earthly concern is thrilled by self-governing railroad car , but there ’s another useful — albeit less exciting — sort of transport that will probably tug itself preferably : The big equipage . Now , a team of antique - Google engineers is trying its manus at building autonomous motortruck .
The start - up Otto has just come out of stealing - mood , reports Mark Harris on Backchannel . Among the team are Anthony Levandowski , who worked on Google ’s first ego - drive car , and Lior Ron , who used to be a salient figure at Google Maps . They ’re joined by member from Apple , Tesla and Here Maps , too .
ego - driving trucks are easier to turn over into a commercial reality than their family elevator car equivalent weight . That ’s mainly because they stick to main road which are easier to navigate than complex city streets . The company has already fitted out three brand - young Volvo big fishing gear with a assortment of sensing element , include lidar , radar and plain - old cameras . Harris report that they ’ve already been tested on roads in Nevada .
Otto claims that the self - drive kit it ’s making is design to be fitted to new hand truck , not old ones , and call that it will be low-cost . Even so , it ’ll have some competition : While most media reporting nitty-gritty on self - driving motorcar , there ’s plenty of work being done by the likes of Peloton and Daimler on ego - driving hand truck , and a convoy of the things alreadydrove across Europeearlier this year .
[ Backchannel ]
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