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Uber self-driving truck loads up on Budweiser for first delivery

A tractor trailer full of beer drove itself down Colorado's I-25 last week with nobody behind the wheel.

By Eric Newcomer, Alex Webb | Updated on October 25, 2016
One of Otto's self-driving, big-rig trucks leaves the garage for a test drive during a demonstration at the Otto headquarters in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File)

(Bloomberg) – A tractor trailer full of beer drove itself down Colorado’s I-25 last week with nobody behind the wheel.

Uber Technologies Inc. and Anheuser-Busch InBev NV teamed up on the delivery, which they said is the first time a self-driving truck had been used to make a commercial shipment.

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