Self Driving Trucks

PlusAI Trailers Stolen in Fremont, Found to Contain Only Sand

Thieves in Newark, California stole two trailers branded with PlusAI and Nvidia logos from outside PlusAI's warehouse, according to a police statement. The trailers, secured only with hand locks that were broken, actually contained about 20,000 pounds of sand each, used by PlusAI for simulated load testing rather than any valuable cargo. Police recovered both trailers with the sand intact, and no arrests have been made as the case remains under investigation.

wired.com · 2026-09-25

Autonomous machines face aviation's century-old safety playbook

An analysis argues that self-driving trucks and other autonomous 'physical AI' systems must work through the same set of trust-building questions that commercial aviation resolved over the past hundred years. Aviation once obsessed over engine count as a proxy for safety, a concern that eventually became irrelevant as reliability improved and regulation matured. The piece suggests robotics and autonomous vehicles are now at the start of a similar maturation curve.

fastcompany.com · 2026-08-26