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ASI Brings Lessons From a 300-Vehicle Autonomous Mine Fleet to Equipment Managers at AEMP EQShift 2026
Most talk about autonomous vehicles is about robotaxis. The longest-running driverless fleets are somewhere else: in mines, on farms and in industrial yards, where there are no pedestrians and the routes repeat all day.
Autonomous Solutions Inc. (ASI), a Utah company that has been automating off-road vehicles for more than 25 years, will share what it learned from one of the biggest of these fleets at AEMP EQShift 2026 in New Orleans, November 16 to 18.
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Indra Picks Ouster (OUST) Lidar for Its Toll Systems, Which Cover 3,300 Lanes and 5 Million Trips a Day
Spanish technology group Indra has selected Ouster’s 3D digital lidar sensors for its electronic toll collection projects worldwide. The companies announced it on November 10. Indra has already installed hundreds of Ouster’s Rev7 sensors on toll gantries across the Americas and Europe, so this extends an existing rollout. Neither side disclosed contract value or unit numbers.
Indra’s toll systems run more than 3,300 lanes and handle about 5 million trips a day.
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Motive and Routeware Bring AI Dashcam Video Into Waste Collection Software to Settle Missed-Pickup Disputes
Motive and Routeware have linked their systems so garbage trucks can prove they did the job. Video and telematics from Motive’s AI Dashcam Plus and AI Omnicam now show up inside Routeware, the routing and operations software many waste haulers and city public works departments run on. The companies announced the integration on November 10.
The problem it solves is a daily one. A customer calls to say the truck never came.
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Robotaxis Blocking Fire Trucks Put Federal Driverless Taxi Standards Back on the Table
As driverless taxi fleets grow, one problem keeps coming up: what happens when a robotaxi with nobody inside stops in front of a fire truck or an ambulance. On November 10, Dallas trial lawyer Amy Witherite, whose firm represents crash victims, called for federal standards that would make operators prove they can clear their cars out of the way quickly before they’re allowed on public roads.
Witherite has campaigned against loose oversight of driverless cars and trucks for more than a year, so her position isn’t new.
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WEX Index Shows Fleets Kept Buying the Same Fuel as US Prices Jumped 43 Percent to $4.85 a Gallon
Commercial fleets paid a lot more for fuel this year and bought about the same amount. That’s the main finding of the first WEX Index, a fleet spending report the fuel card company released on November 10. It draws on transactions from more than 600,000 mobility customers between January and September 2026.
In the third quarter, the average US fuel price in WEX’s data was $4.85 a gallon, up about 43% from $3.
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Motive Puts AI Agents on Field Service Fleets to Call Drivers, Flag Fault Codes and Cut Idling
Motive, the fleet telematics company best known for electronic logging devices and AI dashcams in long-haul trucking, has launched AI agents for a different kind of fleet. The target is landscaping, pest control, plumbing, HVAC and other field service crews: small vans and pickups, shared between workers, running dozens of short jobs a day. Motive is showing the product this week at NALP ELEVATE, the landscaping industry’s trade show, in Tampa.
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Skyways and Shell Get the First FAA Approval to Fly a Cargo Drone Beyond Sight Over the High Seas as Skyways Starts Skyreach Customer Flights
Skyways, an Austin drone company, said on November 9 that it and Shell Pipeline Company have received FAA approval to fly an uncrewed aircraft from the US coast out over the high seas, beyond the pilot’s line of sight. Skyways calls it the first authorization of its kind for an uncrewed aircraft. The same day it launched Skyreach, the production version of its long-range cargo drone, with customer flights starting in December.
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Cainiao Opens Its Warehouses to Robot Makers as Aformic Raises 6.95 Million Dollars and Pudu Brings One Robot Brain to Europe
Three warehouse robotics stories landed on November 4 and 5, from China, South Carolina and Amsterdam. Each one is about the same scarce thing. A robot that works in the lab can still fall apart on a real loading dock with mixed cartons, bad lighting and people walking past, and the companies that own those docks now have something to sell.
Cainiao rents out reality Cainiao, Alibaba’s logistics arm, launched an industry partnership that opens its operating network to AI and robotics companies as a training and testing ground.
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Humble Robotics Raises 51 Million Dollars to Pilot a Cabless Electric Truck for Port and Rail Drayage
Humble Robotics, a San Francisco startup less than a year old, closed a $51 million Series A on November 5. Obvious Ventures led. Eclipse and Energy Impact Partners, which backed the company’s $24 million seed round six months ago, came back in. Total funding is now $75 million, and the company hasn’t moved a single load of paying freight yet.
What it is building is the Humble Hauler, an electric truck with no driver’s cab at all.
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Hormuz and Taiwan Strait Risks Reach Supply Chains Through Different Costs
A freight booking can survive a crisis on paper while the delivery plan falls apart. The vessel still exists, the purchase order remains open and the warehouse has a receiving slot. What disappears is confidence in when the cargo can move. That is the transport problem connecting two reports published on November 1, 2026: a severe interruption around Hormuz and a more contained, unsettled situation around Taiwan. For a manufacturer or distributor exposed to both regions, they belong in the same supply-chain review, with different responses attached.
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