{"id":127964,"date":"2021-09-22T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T22:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/fedex-aurora-to-launch-autonomous-truck-routes-in-texas"},"modified":"2021-09-22T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T22:22:44","slug":"fedex-aurora-to-launch-autonomous-truck-routes-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/fedex-aurora-to-launch-autonomous-truck-routes-in-texas","title":{"rendered":"FedEx, Aurora to launch autonomous-truck routes in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fedex-aurora-to-launch-autonomous-truck-routes-in-texas2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FedEx Corp. and self-driving vehicle startup Aurora Innovation Inc. are launching a pilot program for autonomous-truck shipments between Dallas and Houston, with the companies announcing Wednesday what they called a first-of-its-kind partnership involving the two companies and a truck maker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an exciting, industry-first collaboration that will work toward enhancing the logistics industry through safer, more efficient transportation of goods,\u201d said Rebecca Yeung, vice president of advanced technology and innovation at FedEx FDX,-9.12% 0 in a news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx Corp. and self-driving vehicle startup Aurora Innovation Inc. are launching a pilot program for autonomous-truck shipments between Dallas and Houston, with the companies announcing Wednesday what they called a first-of-its-kind partnership involving the two companies and a truck maker. \u201cThis is an exciting, industry-first collaboration that will work toward enhancing the logistics industry through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127964","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\/127964","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}