Alphabet's Waymo is expanding its autonomous vehicle tests to include trucks and the company hopes its technology will help prevent "thousands of trucking-related deaths each year." Waymo is only testing one vehicle right now and it's manually driving it on public roads for data collection.
[We're] taking our eight years of experience in building self-driving hardware and software and conducting a technical exploration into how our technology can integrate into a truck.- Waymo
One of the company's competitors, Uber, is also working on autonomous trucks. Uber purchased Otto, a self-driving truck company, last year.
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