SACRAMENTO, California — For years, Gov. Gavin Newsom has swatted down union-backed efforts to shield trucking jobs from automation. Now, politically powerful union leaders are pushing his would-be ...

Picture an 18-wheel truck barreling down the highway with 80,000 pounds of cargo and no one but a robot at the wheel. To many, that might seem a frightening idea, even at a time when a few dozen of ...

Drivers in Atlanta will soon share the highways with autonomous trucks. Waymo's bright blue autonomous trucks will hit the highways of Atlanta starting next week, shuttling cargo bound for Google's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Take a close look at the driver in that silver Mercedes big-rig. See where his hands are? Way up behind his head, in the classic ...

PACCAR Inc. PCAR recently entered into a global, strategic agreement with Aurora to develop, test and commercialize its autonomous Peterbilt and Kenworth trucks. This collaboration will amalgamate ...

Tesla will reveal its semi-truck design tonight in a highly anticipated event in Hawthorne, California, reaching another goal in founder Elon Musk's "Master Plan" for the company. The semi is the ...

AI is making lots of people wonder whether technology will take our jobs. Well, truck drivers, they've been wondering that for a while. Yesterday, we reported on how technology can make big rigs ...

Driverless freight vehicles are the responsible way to move goods long distances without worrying about driver distraction, exhaustion or errors.