Regulator
The US road-safety agency NHTSA cleared the Einride Pod, which has no space for a driver, to run on public roads, starting near a GE Appliances site in Kentucky.
A regulator's decision · Sets Einride autonomous pods's stage
What the source says
“has approved the Einride Pod autonomous vehicle for operation on public roads.”
What it means
Einride autonomous pods, from Einride, is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there.
Human help: People working remotely can steer it or take over.
More on Einride autonomous pods
- Two cab-less Einride trucks began hauling freight every day between EASE Logistics warehouses in Ohio, with no one in the cab, on EASE property and local public roads.
- Einride finished its merger with Legato Merger Corp. III and its shares began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker ENRD.
- Einride announced it would put two self-driving electric trucks to work for EASE Logistics in Marysville, Ohio, as part of a state truck-automation project.
- Einride raised $113 million from investors ahead of listing on the stock market through a merger with Legato Merger Corp., in a deal valuing it at $1.35 billion.
- Sweden's transport agency allowed Einride's T-pod onto a short stretch of public road in an industrial area, for work with DB Schenker in Jönköping.