{"id":148569,"date":"2022-10-20T12:22:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/ikea-is-using-driverless-trucks-to-move-its-furniture-in-texas"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:22:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:22:24","slug":"ikea-is-using-driverless-trucks-to-move-its-furniture-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/ikea-is-using-driverless-trucks-to-move-its-furniture-in-texas","title":{"rendered":"IKEA Is Using Driverless Trucks to Move Its Furniture in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thanks to its mild climate, expansive highway network, and lax regulations, Texas has become the country\u2019s proving ground for driverless trucks<\/a>. From cargo<\/a> to produce<\/a>, goods have been traveling the state\u2019s highways partially driver-free (the trucks aim to use autonomous mode on highways, but safety drivers take over to navigate city streets) for a couple of years already. Now there\u2019s another type of cargo traveling through Texas via autonomous trucks: furniture. This week Kodiak Robotics announced<\/a> a partnership to transport IKEA products using a heavy-duty self-driving truck.<\/p>\n

Kodiak has been moving furniture and other IKEA goods since August, but the companies carried out a testing period before making the agreement public. The route runs from an IKEA distribution center in Baytown, east of Houstin, to a store in Frisco, 290 miles away just north of Dallas. It\u2019s mostly a straight shot on highway 45.<\/p>\n

Like the self-driving trucks that\u2019ve come before it, the vehicle has a safety driver on board. He or she picks up loaded trailers at the distribution center in the morning and provides driving help where needed, reaching the store by late afternoon; it\u2019s about a five-hour drive in a car, so a bit more in a heavy-duty truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to its mild climate, expansive highway network, and lax regulations, Texas has become the country\u2019s proving ground for driverless trucks. From cargo to produce, goods have been traveling the state\u2019s highways partially driver-free (the trucks aim to use autonomous mode on highways, but safety drivers take over to navigate city streets) for a couple [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148569","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}