Gallery: $30K Retrofit Turns Dumb Semis Into Self-Driving Robots
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Otto is building a $30,000 kit that can give any truck made since 2013 the ability to drive itself.
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The company has conducted limited tests without a driver at the wheel.
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Otto’s “pack” gives the truck extra cameras, radar, and LIDaR sensors to see the world.
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Around 70 percent of the freight transported across the US goes by road, and demand is growing.
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Autonomous trucks could make the roads safer, make our air cleaner, and make deliveries cheaper and more efficient.
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Otto’s kit will allow trucks handle themselves on the highway, safely keeping within a lane, maintaining a set speed, and slowing or stopping as necessary in traffic.
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Making the computer drive could get companies around strict rest rules for drivers, improving safety without sacrificing efficiency.
