Canadian Government Collaborates with Startups on Autonomous Trucking - AI Trends

"There is AI for an individual truck, which could involve anything from vision systems and autonomous driving, to predictive maintenance. And then there is AI related to fleet operations, which could involve everything from route optimization to an electric vehicle suitability assessment," stated Mike Branch, vice-president, data and analytics at Geotab, headquartered in Oakville, Ont. Geotab provides telematics services for commercial fleet management via a software-as-a-service model. In 2015, the company had one data scientist; today it has 80 of them.