{"id":74705,"date":"2017-12-26T21:42:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T05:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/driverless-trucks-moving-closer-to-commercial-reality-on-canadian-highways"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:11:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:11:51","slug":"driverless-trucks-moving-closer-to-commercial-reality-on-canadian-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/driverless-trucks-moving-closer-to-commercial-reality-on-canadian-highways","title":{"rendered":"Driverless trucks moving closer to commercial reality on Canadian highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/driverless-trucks-moving-closer-to-commercial-reality-on-canadian-highways.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Automation of the Transportation Industry, expect the big roll out around 2022\u2019ish.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Once thought of as a distant fantasy, autonomous trucks are moving toward commercial reality on Canadian highways as companies look to boost productivity amid a driver shortage and governments seek to reduce deadly crashes.<\/p>\n<p>They are not yet driving themselves out of warehouses and down the highways, but companies of all sizes \u2014including General Motors, Google and Uber \u2014 are testing out the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Already a banner year in self-driving advancements \u2014 including the first on-street test of an autonomous vehicle in Canada \u2014 interest in the sector picked up in the closing months of 2017 after Tesla Inc. showcased a fully electric semi-trailer truck equipped with semi-autonomous technology including enhanced autopilot, automated braking and lane departure warnings.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/self-driving-trucks-canada-1.4464693\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/self-driving-trucks-canada-1.4464693<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automation of the Transportation Industry, expect the big roll out around 2022\u2019ish. Once thought of as a distant fantasy, autonomous trucks are moving toward commercial reality on Canadian highways as companies look to boost productivity amid a driver shortage and governments seek to reduce deadly crashes. They are not yet driving themselves out of warehouses [\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-74705","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\/74705","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=74705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74877,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74705\/revisions\/74877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}