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Waymo and J.B. Hunt begin autonomous freight trials in Texas

Waymo and J.B. Hunt began using Waymo Driver-equipped Class 8 trucks to carry customer freight on the I-45 corridor between Houston and Fort Worth under human supervision.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM36confidence 94/100

Why it moved the index

The pilot placed autonomous trucking into a real customer freight workflow on a major commercial corridor, creating a path toward consequential logistics automation and labor substitution. Human supervision and limited trial scope reduce magnitude.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 36 · confidence 94

    New June 2021 autonomous-freight deployment absent from the durable corpus.

    12 Aug 2026

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