{"id":109588,"date":"2020-07-06T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/u-s-autonomous-freight-network-planned-for-2023-2024"},"modified":"2020-07-06T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:05:06","slug":"u-s-autonomous-freight-network-planned-for-2023-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/u-s-autonomous-freight-network-planned-for-2023-2024","title":{"rendered":"U.S. autonomous freight network planned for 2023\u20132024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-autonomous-freight-network-planned-for-2023-20242.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TuSimple, a trucking technology company, has announced a plan for the world\u2019s first Autonomous Freight Network (AFN) \u2013 an ecosystem consisting of autonomous trucks, digital mapped routes, strategically placed terminals, and TuSimple Connect, a proprietary autonomous operations monitoring system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Collectively, these components will work together to create the safest and most efficient way to bring self-driving trucks to market. Partnering with TuSimple in the launch of the Autonomous Freight Network are UPS, Penske Truck Leasing, U.S. Xpress (who operate one of the largest carrier fleets in the country) and McLane, a Berkshire Hathaway company and one of the largest supply chain services leaders in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ultimate goal is to have a nationwide transportation network, consisting of mapped routes connecting hundreds of terminals to enable efficient, low-cost, long-haul autonomous freight operations,\u201d said Cheng Lu, President of TuSimple. \u201cBy launching the AFN with our strategic partners, we will be able to quickly scale operations and expand autonomous shipping lanes to provide users access to autonomous capacity anywhere and 24\/7 on-demand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TuSimple, a trucking technology company, has announced a plan for the world\u2019s first Autonomous Freight Network (AFN) \u2013 an ecosystem consisting of autonomous trucks, digital mapped routes, strategically placed terminals, and TuSimple Connect, a proprietary autonomous operations monitoring system. Collectively, these components will work together to create the safest and most efficient way to bring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}