The Freightliner Inspiration Truck is the world’s first autonomous truck to be granted a license for road use. The Freightliner Inspiration Truck is based on the series-produced US Freightliner ...

Among our greatest pet peeves, when it comes to driving, is the phrase, “Look, ma: No hands!” As we see it, hands and eyes belong firmly on the steering wheel and road ahead, respectively. Now, ...

Whether or not we will ever share the road with truly driverless trucks is a story for another day. But Daimler Trucks North America brought that possibility a little closer to reality with the debut ...

In an evening ceremony at Hoover Dam, Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) unveiled the Freightliner Inspiration Truck to several hundred international news media, trucking industry analysts, and ...

This story appears in the Sept. 21 print edition of Transport Topics. LAS VEGAS — Freightliner Trucks road-tested its autonomous Inspiration truck for a second time here Sept. 15, demonstrating its ...

LAS VEGAS — Freightliner Trucks offered instruction to industry press with commercial driver licenses Sept. 15 on how to drive the autonomous Inspiration Truck that was unveiled in May. Freightliner ...

LAS VEGAS -- Sometimes, trucking journalists like me do very funny things. Like being certified to drive a truck that is pretty much able to drive by itself. Ad Loading... Daimler Trucks North America ...

Freightliner unveiled May 5 the country’s first road-legal self-driving truck. The announcement came in Las Vegas, Nevada, in two separate events — one to introduce the concepts behind the truck’s ...

The Inspiration's dashboard. Although much attention has been paid to self-driving vehicles being developed by Google and others, Daimler believes that automated tractor-trailers will roll on highways ...

In May, when Freightliner pulled the curtain back on its new Inspiration autonomous truck model, the company promised CDL-holding journalists the opportunity to get a Nevada autonomous truck ...