Einride’s drone truck has its first full-time job moving GE appliances around
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#6GBFN)
There is no calling shotgun in this truck because there are no seats for humans. | Image: Einride The Swedish autonomous trucking company Einride is using its cab-less electric delivery vehicles in Selmer, Tennessee, to move items from GE Appliances' manufacturing plant to a warehouse. This operation can run up to seven shuttles per day, Monday through Thursday, the press release states. In an email to The Verge, a PR representative for Einride, Matthew Klein, wrote that the distance for each trip is 0.3 miles (or 0.48km) and is all on private roads owned by GE.
Einride first ran controlled operations at GE's Appliance Park headquarters in 2021. Later, the company moved on to a public road test with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approval in 2022, the first public road pilot in the US for a purpose built autonomous,...