Are Autonomous Vehicles the Next Wave of Last-Mile Technology?

Fully driverless trucks are still a way down the road, but they might solve the driver shortage, save money, improve efficiency and help the environment.

February 15, 2019

Barry Hochfelder

Starting in early 2019, DoorDash and General Motors’ Cruise Automation will test the first food deliveries using autonomous vehicles in San Francisco.

Starting in early 2019, DoorDash and General Motors’ Cruise Automation will test the first food deliveries using autonomous vehicles in San Francisco.

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America’s economy relies on trucking. The American Trucking Associations (ATA) says that trucks move about 71 percent of the nation’s freight by weight with $738.9 billion in gross freight revenue (of primary shipments), representing 81.5 percent of the U.S. freight bill in 2016.

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