20 Nov Amazon Plans to Open Cashierless Supermarkets Next Year Amazon.com is preparing to open Amazon Go supermarkets and pop-up stores, an expansion of the company’s cashierless ambitions that includes the possibility of licensing the technology to other retailers. Read more...
20 Nov Nissan Plans First Bond Sale Since Scandals After Leader Changes Nissan Motor Co. is planning its first bond sale since scandals involving its ex-Chairman Carlos Ghosn and former CEO Hiroto Saikawa, according to people familiar with the matter. Read more...
20 Nov Automation Debate Across Trucking Industry Lingers, Lawmakers Say WASHINGTON — Federal policymakers seek to reassure truckers about their future in the labor force as they acknowledge the need to adapt to a new landscape amid advancements in automation. Read more...
20 Nov Dean Foods Bankruptcy Should Have Little Impact on Trucking, Experts Say Trucking and agriculture officials said the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Dean Foods and its decision to sell its assets to the national milk marketing cooperative Dairy Farmers of America should have little impact on the trucking industry, at least in the short term. Read more...
19 Nov NTSB Calls Uber’s Fatal Crash a Lesson for All Automated Vehicle Testing A 2018 fatal pedestrian crash involving an Uber Technologies Inc. automated vehicle in Arizona indicates that the challenges of self-driving vehicle operations have not yet been solved, and underscores a lack of sufficient federal and state oversight of developmental automated vehicle testing, investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board said at a Nov. 19 hearing in Washington. Read more...
19 Nov Perspective: Blockchain Useful in the Food Supply Chain Blockchain technology is capable of providing end-to-end transparency about where food originated and traveled, which can help reduce the risk of foodborne illness and the cost of produce contamination. Read more...
19 Nov Logistics Firm Mode Reaches Agreement in $2.3 Billion Merger With SunteckTTS Dallas-based Mode Transportation and SunteckTTS Inc. have reached an agreement to merge the two transportation and logistics companies under the Mode branding, generating more than $2 billion in annual revenue, according to a release. Read more...
19 Nov NTSB Slams Uber Self-Driving Car Unit’s Safety Culture Uber Technologies Inc.’s self-driving vehicle unit lacked an effective safety culture at the time when one of its test vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., in 2018, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said Nov. 19. Read more...
19 Nov Nikola Announces Plans to Make Breakthrough Battery Technology Available to All Nikola Corp. announced it entered into a letter of intent to acquire a world-class battery engineering team to help bring to pre-production a new battery, and called it the first battery that would remove binder material and current collectors, enabling more energy storage within the cell. Read more...
19 Nov Global Shipment Giant DHL Says Worst Is Over for Trade, Brexit The worst may be over for global trade as tensions over Brexit and the U.S.-China relationship show signs of easing, according to John Pearson of DHL Express. Read more...