Imagine cruising down the highway when suddenly a massive, self-driving 18-wheeler pulls up beside you. No human in the driver's seat, just sensors and computers guiding this 40-ton behemoth down the ...

Aurora's autonomous freight trucks will operate on a Dallas-Laredo route through Austin and San Antonio.

Aurora driverless trucks have begun transporting goods on the nation's freeways. That means more efficiency, but also job losses for truck drivers. Chris Urmson knows his big idea to revolutionize the ...

The self-driving big rig startup claims its Aurora Driver 2 suite cuts hardware costs in half.

Autonomous big rig scans cars on road as it traverses a highway. As autonomous big rigs hit U.S. highways, many are wary of the safety implications. LOS ANGELES, CA ...

Lior Ron, the entrepreneur who founded and ran Uber Technologies Inc.’s freight and logistics unit, is returning to the world of self-driving big rigs. Ron is joining autonomous trucking and AI ...

Autonomous cars stir up plenty of emotions in drivers. Some folks lament the fact that their children and grandchildren will never know the joys of driving. (Future children and grandchildren stuck in ...

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 ...

AI is making lots of people wonder whether technology will take our jobs. Well, truck drivers, they've been wondering that for a while. Yesterday, we reported on how technology can make big rigs ...

SACRAMENTO, California — For years, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has swatted down union-backed efforts to shield trucking jobs from automation. Now, politically powerful union leaders are pushing his ...

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.