While San Francisco's mayor Daniel Lurie is opening his arms to autonomous vehicles, other cities are more resistant. Boston, for instance, has considered a ban on autonomous vehicles in the city.

The move puts Uber in direct competitor with Waymo, which has dominated the metro area.

Aurora's first driverless route was from Dallas to Houston. This next one is Fort Worth to El Paso.

Damoa pinpointed the problem: the complex, multi-step process moving a container from a ship to a freight train. He founded Glīd Technologies to try and solve it.

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