Courtesy of Mish.
Otto, a driverless technology company bought out by Uber, just completed its first driverless mission.
It was a beer run of 45,000 to 50,000 cans of Budweiser from an Anheuser-Busch facility in Loveland, Colorado to a destination in Colorado Springs, about 120 miles away.
A quick check of my calendar says this is still 2016, not 2045, not 2030, and not the twelfth of never.
A driver did take the truck from Loveland to a weigh station in Fort Collins but from that location Otto took over for 100 miles without driver intervention.
A human driver then completed the city delivery.
There are at least five news agencies commenting on this story. Some versions said 45,000 cans other 50,000 cans.
Reuters reported that Otto was paid the market rate of $470 for the job using one of its trucks outfitted with the new technology.
