Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has been around since 1984, when Carnegie Mellon University first piloted the autonomous “Terregator” in Pittsburgh. Despite the predictions of AI becoming ubiquitous, it has yet to hit the mainstream. This fall, the city’s most prominent founders pivoted to trucking, where Chris Urmson has already made a name for himself. Two Pittsburgh companies recently earned Department of Defense contracts to build driverless trucks for the military, but only one will win. The challenge for AVs is both technical and public perception, as General Motors’ leading robotaxi model dragged a woman 20 feet in San Francisco. Chris Urmson has championed transparency and Aurora has won US$800mil (RM3.6bil) in startup fundraising this summer, but neither has faced the blowback of a serious highway accident yet.
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