{"id":57851,"date":"2017-06-02T03:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T10:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/waymo-working-on-self-driving-trucks"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:01:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:01:16","slug":"waymo-working-on-self-driving-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/waymo-working-on-self-driving-trucks","title":{"rendered":"Waymo working on self-driving trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/waymo-working-on-self-driving-trucks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>N\u201d Alphabet Inc\u2019s (GOOGL.O) self-driving car unit Waymo is working on developing self-driving trucks, the company said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Waymo, which is looking to expand its self-driving car efforts, expects autonomous vehicles to be able to take over longer distance trucking in the coming years, while allowing human drivers to handle local pickup and delivery routes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re taking our eight years of experience in building self-driving hardware and software and conducting a technical exploration into how our technology can integrate into a truck,\u201d a Waymo spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-waymo-selfdriving-truck-idUSKBN18T04V?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5930f20204d3016050fd7e38&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-waymo-selfdriving-truck-id...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N\u201d Alphabet Inc\u2019s (GOOGL.O) self-driving car unit Waymo is working on developing self-driving trucks, the company said on Thursday. Waymo, which is looking to expand its self-driving car efforts, expects autonomous vehicles to be able to take over longer distance trucking in the coming years, while allowing human drivers to handle local pickup and delivery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57851","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\/57851","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57879,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57851\/revisions\/57879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}