Driverless trucks tested in Nevada
Otto test-runs an 18-wheeler on Interstate 80 outside Reno. Photo/Otto
By Dan Michalsky, Las Vegas Sun
Founded by a group of former Google engineers, self-driving trucking startup Otto blazed through Nevada in 2016 and left behind some serious tread.
Otto launched in January, and by May the San Francisco-based company had conducted the first-ever test run of an 18-wheeler, on an interstate outside of Reno, with no one on board.
The company heralded the drive as a huge success in a video posted on YouTube, and three months later Uber bought Otto for $680 million.
But the historic ride may also have been the first moving violation committed by a driverless vehicle in Nevada.