The road to autonomous trucking is paved with more diesel mechanics than AI engineers

Starsky Robotics launched in 2016 with bold plans to fix the freight industry by replacing human-driven trucks with self-driving ones. 

But, as TechCrunch reports, the company today has 3 autonomous trucks — and 36 “regular” trucks.

Starsky’s journey shows that startups sometimes succeed only by collaborating with existing experts, instead of disrupting industry insiders.

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