The road to autonomous trucking is paved with more diesel mechanics than AI engineers
June 11, 2019
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.