Self-Driving Trucks Are Now Delivering Refrigerators 650 miles along the I-10 freeway in Southern California...

Self-Driving Trucks Are Now Delivering Refrigerators 650 miles along the I-10 freeway in Southern California

If you live in Southern California and you’ve ordered one of those fancy new smart refrigerators in the past few weeks, it may have hitched a ride to you on a robotruck.

Since early October, autonomous trucks built and operated by the startup Embark have been hauling Frigidaire refrigerators 650 miles along the I-10 freeway, from a warehouse in El Paso, Texas, to a distribution center in Palm Springs, California. A human driver rides in the cab to monitor the computer chauffeur for now, but the ultimate goal of this (auto) pilot program is to dump the fleshbag and let the trucks rumble solo down the highway.

Some are saying that this form of autonomous driving makes more sense right now than passenger cars. But either way, change is coming.

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