Ex-SpaceX engineer Matt Soule believes his autonomous rail cars could help ease the trucker shortage. Parallel Systems' rail freight cars could take over long-haul cargo routes from truckers, he said.

A California startup co-founded by three former SpaceX engineers has emerged from stealth with a plan to build autonomous electric vehicles to haul freight by rail, and has raised a sizable pot of ...

Los Angeles, Calif.-based Parallel Systems on Sept. 12 introduced its second-generation autonomous battery-electric freight car, which it plans to pilot test on existing U.S. and international rail ...

Each day, thousands of trucks leave the shipping ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach hauling containers full of furniture, clothing, electronics, and other imports from Asia. The trucks, running on ...

Los Angeles, Calif.-based Parallel Systems on Dec. 20 released a video of its new autonomous battery-electric freight cars, which it said showed them “successfully platooning,” or “connecting with one ...

Parallel Systems is preparing to test its autonomous-railcar technology in the Peach State after raising $38 million in growth capital, as the startup aims to give railroads the means to take business ...

Platoons of driverless cargo trucks cruising across highways is one of those tempting technocrat ideas that doesn’t look like it will pan out. As autonomous driving technology matured in the middle of ...

SAVANNAH, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Georgia Central Railway, L.P. (GC) and Heart of Georgia Railroad, Inc. (HOG), subsidiaries of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W), today filed a petition with the Federal ...