{"id":164616,"date":"2023-05-27T00:24:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T05:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/kratos-to-deploy-more-autonomous-platooning-trucks-in-midwest"},"modified":"2023-05-27T00:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T05:24:09","slug":"kratos-to-deploy-more-autonomous-platooning-trucks-in-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/kratos-to-deploy-more-autonomous-platooning-trucks-in-midwest","title":{"rendered":"Kratos to deploy more autonomous platooning trucks in Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N-GkbFXq3Ts?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Platooning technology is allowing lower-cost entry to the autonomous space, where its reach includes the existing truck market rather than solely on \u201ccustomers who can afford to buy new trucks,\u201d according to Kratos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCouple that with the increasing driver shortage and the potential multiplies,\u201d Steve Fendley, president of Kratos Unmanned Systems Division, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The platooning tech goes beyond Kratos. Oklahoma-based carrier Stevens Trucking is looking to deploy the technology with Locomation over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportdive.com\/news\/stevens-trucking-locomation-partnership\/631363\/\">five-year period<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platooning technology is allowing lower-cost entry to the autonomous space, where its reach includes the existing truck market rather than solely on \u201ccustomers who can afford to buy new trucks,\u201d according to Kratos. \u201cCouple that with the increasing driver shortage and the potential multiplies,\u201d Steve Fendley, president of Kratos Unmanned Systems Division, said in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164616","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=164616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}