The world's first autonomous truck travels 200 kilometers in the US transporting beer

October 20 will go down in trucking history as the day a truck "drove" alone loaded with 45,000 cans of Budweiser brand beer. The protagonist of this feat is Otto, the truck equipped with the most cutting-edge technology from Uber and Anheuser-Busch that took two hours to travel about 200 kilometers, always on a highway through the state of Colorado without any setbacks, monitored by a police patrol who followed in his footsteps. Meanwhile, the driver supervised the operation away from the wheel traveling at an average of 89 kilometers per hour. And the transportation company pocketed $470 for the service.

The driver only had to take the controls twice: once to enter and once to exit the highway, according to a spokesman for the company Otto . According to industry insiders, this is just the beginning, and self-driving trucks will most likely become widely available long before self-driving cars. The reason is that the technology is better adapted to the characteristics of long road trips (much more predictable) than to the streets of a city, where distractions are the order of the day.

Trucks Self-driving cars can completely change the way you drive them. With a truck like Uber's Otto, the trucker only has to supervise the progress and can do other types of things that he cannot do now, such as refresh himself or eat something (even make a phone call) without affecting driving. This change will be accompanied by increased comfort in the cabin and it will no longer be anecdotal that the truck has its own refrigerator. Perhaps one of the best truck refrigerators is the Waeco TropiCool TCX21, which has just renewed its design and is on sale at recambiosdelcamion.com with a discount of more than 26% and a final reduced price of only 231.29 euros. In addition, the refrigerator is delivered with a magnetized flashlight with 8 mini-sized LEDs.

The Waeco TropiCool TCX21 has a capacity of approximately 20 liters and can work with both 12 and 24 volts. It is capable of lowering the ambient temperature by up to 30 degrees and also heating up to a temperature of 65. Its design and performance make it ideal for trucks and professional use as well as for camping, cars, weekend outings, 4x4 and Camper.