Alphabet’s Waymo subsidiary, which develops autonomous vehicles, said Tuesday it would work on a self-driving semi-trailer truck using a popular Daimler brand called Freightliner. It hopes to introduce the truck in the U.S. “in the coming years.” Of course, timelines and partnership agreements in the self-driving car world have a long history of being unreliable and fleeting. The reason the...
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