{"id":1076,"date":"2019-12-12T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evhnews.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2019-12-17T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:00:49","slug":"plus-ai-and-land-olakes-completes-industry-first-cross-country-commercial-freight-run-in-an-autonomous-semi-truck-from-california-to-pennsylvania-in-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evhnews.com\/he\/2019\/12\/12\/plus-ai-and-land-olakes-completes-industry-first-cross-country-commercial-freight-run-in-an-autonomous-semi-truck-from-california-to-pennsylvania-in-three-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus.AI \u05d5-Land O&#039;Lakes \u05de\u05e9\u05dc\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05e8\u05d9\u05e6\u05d4 \u05d4\u05de\u05e1\u05d7\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea \u05d4\u05de\u05e1\u05d7\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea \u05d1\u05ea\u05e2\u05e9\u05d9\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Plus.AI And Land O\u2019Lakes Completes Industry First Cross Country Commercial Freight Run In An Autonomous Semi Truck From California To Pennsylvania In Three Days Image Credit: Plus.AI<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plus.AI \u05d5-Land O&#039;Lakes \u05de\u05e9\u05dc\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05e8\u05d9\u05e6\u05d4 \u05d4\u05de\u05e1\u05d7\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea \u05d4\u05de\u05e1\u05d7\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea \u05d1\u05ea\u05e2\u05e9\u05d9\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/author\/levi-sumagaysay\/\">Levi Sumagaysay<\/a> | lsumagaysay@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: December 10, 2019 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: December 11, 2019 at 4:11 am<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Silicon Valley startup has completed what appears to be the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck, which finished a 2,800-mile-run from Tulare, California to Quakertown, Pennsylvania for<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Land O\u2019Lakes in under three days. The trip was smooth like butter, 40,000 pounds of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CL1A2VwQblM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=he-IL&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Video Credit: Plus.ai is a leading provider of self-driving trucking technology, headquartered in Cupertino, CA<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Plus.ai, a 3-year-old company in Cupertino, announced the milestone Tuesday. A safety driver was aboard the autonomous semi, ready to take the wheel if needed, along with a safety engineer who observed how things were going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to demonstrate the safety, reliability and maturity of our overall system,\u201d said Shawn Kerrigan, co-founder and chief operating officer of the company, in an interview Monday. The company\u2019s system uses cameras, radar and lidar \u2014 laser-based technology to help vehicles determine distance \u2014 and handled the different terrains and weather conditions such as rain and low visibility well, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The truck, which traveled on interstates 15 and 70 right before Thanksgiving, had to take scheduled breaks but drove mostly autonomously. There were zero \u201cdisengagements,\u201d or times the self-driving system had to be suspended because of a problem, Kerrigan said.<\/p>\n<p>Plus.ai has been running freight<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>every week for about a year, its COO said, but this is the first cross-country trip and<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>partnership it has talked about publicly.<\/p>\n<p>End of year is peak butter time, according to Land O\u2019Lakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be able to address this peak demand with a fuel- and cost-effective freight transport solution will be tremendously valuable to our business,\u201d said Yone Dewberry, the butter maker\u2019s chief supply officer, in a statement<\/p>\n<p>How long will it be before self-driving trucks are delivering goods regularly across the nation\u2019s highways? Kerrigan thinks it\u2019s \u201ca few years out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dan Ives, managing director of equity research for Wedbush Securities, predicts there will be quite a few autonomous freight-delivery pilots in 2020 and 2021, with the beginning of a commercial rollout in 2022. Like other experts, he believes the trucking industry will be the first to adopt autonomous technology on a mass scale<\/p>\n<p>The timeline will depend on regulations, which vary state to state, he said.<\/p>\n<p>About 10 to 15 companies nationwide are working on autonomous freight delivery, Ives said. That includes San Francisco-based self-driving truck startup Embark Trucks, which last year completed a five-day, 2,400-mile cross-country trip. 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