{"id":182765,"date":"2024-02-15T13:24:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/pioneer-or-guinea-pig-central-texas-highway-testing-tech-for-driverless-trucks"},"modified":"2024-02-15T13:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:24:51","slug":"pioneer-or-guinea-pig-central-texas-highway-testing-tech-for-driverless-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/pioneer-or-guinea-pig-central-texas-highway-testing-tech-for-driverless-trucks","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer or \u2018guinea pig?\u2019 Central Texas highway testing tech for driverless trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pioneer-or-guinea-pig-central-texas-highway-testing-tech-for-driverless-trucks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Independent of the smart-corridor project, two major companies behind self-driving big rig technology told KXAN they plan to remove safety drivers and go completely driverless by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the <a href=\"https:\/\/kodiak.ai\/\">California-based company Kodiak Robotics<\/a> told KXAN it started operating self-driving big rigs on routes around Texas in 2019, always with backup safety drivers.<\/p>\n<p>In that time, \u201cthe bulk of Kodiak\u2019s deliveries have been between our Dallas operations hub and Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, and Atlanta,\u201d Kodiak spokesman Daniel Goff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent of the smart-corridor project, two major companies behind self-driving big rig technology told KXAN they plan to remove safety drivers and go completely driverless by the end of the year. A spokesperson for the California-based company Kodiak Robotics told KXAN it started operating self-driving big rigs on routes around Texas in 2019, always with [\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-182765","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\/182765","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=182765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}