Prepping your grocery list for the holidays? Pennsylvanians this year could have had their sticks of butter delivered from across the country by a self-driving truck.I suppose Kerrygold is already planning the autonomous butter boat.
A Silicon Valley startup has completed the first coast-to-coast commercial freight trip made by a self-driving truck, according to the company’s press release. Plus.ai announced on Tuesday that its truck traveled from Tulare, California, to Quakertown carrying over 40,000 pounds of Land O’Lakes butter.
And the company says the trek went as smooth as butter.
The journey took less than three days and spanned 2,800 miles, according to the announcement. It also involved different weather conditions and terrains, including the “expansive plains of Kansas (and) winding roads of the Rockies.” The truck drove “primarily in autonomous mode” and a driver was onboard for monitoring and safety purposes, according to the release....MORE
Somehow related, if interested:
October 2016
Commodities: A Look At Butter
There are very few pure-play butter equities (none) and the futures trade by appointment.
The cash market is where it's at if you want exposure....
December 2015
An Arbitrage Missed: The Great Canadian Butter Shortage of 2015
Shades of the Great Norwegian butter shortage of 2011 when entrepreneurs from Sweden and Russia were getting the sunshiney little packages across NATO's front lines....
February 2017
Commodities: Ireland's Kerrygold Butter BANNED In Wisconsin
April 2019
Wooden Bog Butter Barrels are possibly the most beautiful things you can find in a bog.
October 2012
Napoleon III, Butter and West Marin
And many, many more.
Also autonomous
And semis.
