Don Burnette

Refrigerated Fast Food Is Getting Autonomous Rides Between Dallas and Oklahoma City

by | Mar 1, 2024
Want fries with that? If you do—and you're in Oklahoma City—they may have just gotten a robotically driven truck ride from Dallas before getting plopped in a fryer and placed in your fast food bag. California-based autonomous trucking company Kodiak Robotics and Illinois' Martin-Brower Company are trucking refrigerated freight for quick service restaurants eight times per week between the two cities.
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Kodiak Unveils First ‘Driverless-Ready’ Semi-Truck Designed for Scaled Deployment, Plans Commercial Runs on I-45 This Year
by | Jan 9, 2024
Planning to launch driverless operations between Dallas and Houston later this year out of its Lancaster hub, Kodiak says its sixth-generation driverless-ready semi-truck bristles with redundancies for safe operation—building on the Mountain View, California-based company's five years of real-world testing.
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Kodiak Partners with U.S. Xpress on First-Ever Autonomous Lane from Dallas to the East Coast
by | Apr 7, 2022
Self-driving trucking company Kodiak Robotics is teaming up with U.S. Xpress to launch autonomous freight service between Dallas and Atlanta using Kodiak's self-driving trucks—with operators in the cab to monitor things. It's the first launch of a commercial autonomous trucking lane to the East Coast, following earlier Kodiak routes from Dallas to Houston, San Antonio, and Oklahoma City.
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