• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    As of Thursday, the company’s self-driving tech has completed over 1,200 miles without a human in the truck.

    That’s not an impressive number. That’s like 2 days’ worth of driving.

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      1 day ago

      It’s 5 one way trips. The article says the trucks run from Dallas to Houston which is about 250 miles according to google. It does mention that over 4 years it’s made 10,000 deliveries but I wasn’t sure if that meant as a company or with the self driving trucks but had a driver in the truck for the 10,000 deliveries. It only specifies that the 1,200 miles has been done without a person in the truck.

    • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Its enough to prove the concept.

      If it saves 1% of operating costs trucking businesses will be falling over themselves to implement it.