Uber’s Self-Driving Truck Makes First Beer Run
A driverless truck drove 120 miles across Colorado to deliver 50,000 cans of Budweiser. The truck was owned by
Otto, which was bought by Uber last Summer for $680 million.
The ‘driverless trucks’ are not intended to put drivers out of work. For now, the Otto technology only works on the highway, where it doesn’t have to deal with stop signs or pesky humans crossing the road. Human drivers will ‘pilot’ the trucks to and from the highway, much like a captain would navigate a ship, letting the tech take the wheel on the long stretches of highway.
The driverless trucks are also safer – some 400,000 trucks are involved in crashes each year, killing around 4,000 people.
Here’s hoping the next beer delivery is something better than Budweiser.
