Uber's self-driving truck makes its first commercial delivery: beer

The first commercial shipment by a self-driving truck was a beer run. Uber Technologies Inc.'s self-driving trucking unit, Otto, said Tuesday it partnered with brewing giant Anheuser-Busch Cos. to carry 51,744 cans of Budweiser on a shipment through Colorado. "Yes, you can go out right now and buy a can of beer that was shipped by a self-driving truck," Otto said. With "full support from the state of Colorado," Otto said, the white-and-red truck traveled from Fort Collins down Interstate 25 to Colorado Springs last Thursday "exit-to-exit without any human intervention." "Our professional driver was out of the driver's seat for the entire 120-mile journey down I-25, monitoring the self-driving system from the sleeper berth in the back," Otto said.