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Swedish technology company Einride on Feb. 27 announced plans to hire two autonomous truck operators over the next year.

Cruise, the autonomous-vehicle unit of General Motors Co., has been cleared to carry passengers in California.

ATLANTA — Original equipment manufacturers have an important role to play in the adoption of connected vehicle technology, according to Chris Lee, vice president of engineering at Great Dane Trailers.

The National Transportation Safety Board on Feb. 25 will convene its second hearing on a fatal crash involving Tesla Inc.’s automated driver-assist technology, even though the pioneering automaker hasn’t filed formal responses to recommendations stemming from the first one more than two years ago.

Technology company Outrider closed out an early stage of financing with $53 million to automate truck yards, the company announced Feb. 19.

WASHINGTON — Policymakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are aiming to draft a bipartisan measure that would guarantee the deployment of lifesaving technologies in self-driving vehicles, the chairman of a key committee said Feb. 11.

UPS and Waymo announced Jan. 29 a pilot program for autonomous vehicle package pickup in Phoenix.

The North Dakota Department of Transportation will use a recently awarded federal grant to deploy an autonomous attenuator truck.

LAS VEGAS — Even as automated vehicle developers tamped down inflated expectations for fully self-driving passenger cars at CES 2020, several companies continued to tout the market potential for highly automated commercial vehicles.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is evaluating allegations that Tesla Inc. vehicles contain a defect that can cause sudden unintended acceleration, according to a notice posted on the agency’s website.