Trail of beers: Uber Freight division completes first autonomous booze run [VIDEO]

San Francisco startup Otto has given a whole new meaning to the term “beer run.” The tech company, which Uber bought last summer for US$680 million, completed a partially autonomous delivery of 50,000 cans of Budweiser this week in Colorado.
Uber isn’t about to head to the fridge to grab us another round of beers quite yet. Otto’s technology only works on the highway, where it doesn’t have to contend with variables like jaywalking pedestrians, four-way stops or hipsters on fixies. But the ach…

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