(Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)The race to create self-driving trucks just got a little less crowded. That’s because Uber announced Monday that the ride-hailing giant is shuttering its self-driving truck program, a division that made history in 2016 by completing the world’s first autonomous truck delivery — 50,000 cans of Budweiser. [Uber’s self-driving big rigs are already traveling across Arizona]Uber said that ending its self-driving truck program will allow the company to focus on its self-driving car program, which the company is moving to relaunch on public roads. The company plans to shift employees currently focused on self-driving trucks to other parts of its self-driving technology programs. Uber’s self-driving truck program faced competition from a number of companies, including Tesla and Waymo — formerly known as Google’s self-driving car project — which began hauling cargo in Atlanta in March.

Source: Washington Post July 31, 2018 15:39 UTC