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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2431300" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/technology/self-driving-trucks-first-mission-a-beer-run.html" target="_blank"><strong>Self-Driving Truck’s First Mission: A 120-Mile Beer Run - NY Times</strong></a></p><p></p><p>The futurists of Silicon Valley may not have seen this one coming: The first commercial delivery made by a self-driving truck was 2,000 cases of Budweiser beer.</p><p></p><p>On Tuesday, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/technology/uber-self-driving-cars-otto-trucks.html" target="_blank">Otto</a>, the Uber-owned self-driving vehicle operation, announced the completion of its first commercial delivery, having delivered its beer load from Fort Collins, Colo., to Colorado Springs, a roughly 120-mile trip on Interstate 25.</p><p></p><p>In recent years, Uber has predicted a future in which you can ride in a self-driving car that will take you where you want to go, no driver necessary. But the idea that commercial trucking could be done by robot is a relatively new idea — and a potentially controversial one, given the possibility that robots could one day replace human drivers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2431300, member: 1"] [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/technology/self-driving-trucks-first-mission-a-beer-run.html'][B]Self-Driving Truck’s First Mission: A 120-Mile Beer Run - NY Times[/B][/URL] The futurists of Silicon Valley may not have seen this one coming: The first commercial delivery made by a self-driving truck was 2,000 cases of Budweiser beer. On Tuesday, [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/technology/uber-self-driving-cars-otto-trucks.html']Otto[/URL], the Uber-owned self-driving vehicle operation, announced the completion of its first commercial delivery, having delivered its beer load from Fort Collins, Colo., to Colorado Springs, a roughly 120-mile trip on Interstate 25. In recent years, Uber has predicted a future in which you can ride in a self-driving car that will take you where you want to go, no driver necessary. But the idea that commercial trucking could be done by robot is a relatively new idea — and a potentially controversial one, given the possibility that robots could one day replace human drivers. [/QUOTE]
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