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Alphabet's Waymo Teams With J.B. Hunt on Self-Driving Truck Testing Program


Waymo, the self-driving vehicle unit of Google owner Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL), is accelerating the development of its autonomous truck program. On Thursday, Waymo's Waymo Via trucking division and J.B. Hunt Transport Services (NASDAQ: JBHT) said in separate announcements that they are teaming up to test limited autonomy in live delivery situations.

The two companies will run a series of human-supervised runs on the I-45 highway between the cities of Houston and Fort Worth in Texas. These will be conducted with J.B. Hunt trucks loaded with Waymo Via's self-driving systems. As we are not currently near 100% autonomous driving, a licensed human driver will be on board the vehicles, in addition to a software engineer.

Image source: Waymo (Alphabet).

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