Tag: paul schlegel

Channel 19

‘Venture capital is a little fickle’: Autonomous-truck developer and trucking company Starsky Robotics closes shop

Venture capital funding issues has caused the autonomous truck developer and trucking company Starsky Robotics to lay off drivers and close shop. Details here.

February 24, 2020

Overdrive Radio

Engineering realities v. hyperactive marketing: The ‘driverless’ trucking future explored

The Overdrive Radio podcast transports you like so many teleporting time machines back to the Aug. 22 panel at GATS about the $64,000 question: What’s the role of the driver look like at it changes over time with increasingly advanced layers of auto-assist technology?

September 6, 2019

Business

Driver’s role in ‘driverless trucks’ explored in GATS panel

One vision of the future driver was exemplified by an approach to tech development discussed in this sessions at GATS — this vision sees the work of driving becoming an office job that is however something like telecommuting, of a fashion, to a mobile office rolling down the road.

August 23, 2019