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The march towards a future of self-driving vehicles continues apace. In Singapore, a successful pilot trial with driverless buses is expanding, and in Colorado, Uber-owned startup Otto and Anheuser-Busch InBev just used an autonomous freight hauler to ship some beer.
Both trials represent baby steps towards a driverless future. The Colorado beer delivery, which TechCrunch describes as “mostly a stunt,” required a police escort and several weeks of careful planning to map the route and find a time when traffic was light. Almost 52,000 cans of Budweiser left Fort Collins and drove through Denver to Colorado Springs via I-25, roughly 120 miles (193km).
In a blog post, Otto (which was bought by Uber in August) wrote that it still envisions truck drivers having careers despite their vehicles doing most of the heavy lifting:
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Source: Ars Technica – Self-driving vehicles deliver beer in Colorado, people in Singapore