Uber's Self-Driving Truck Delivered a Semitrailer Full of Budweiser 120 Miles

A Colorado cruise straight out of the future

Somewhere in a college freshman dormitory in Colorado, there's a young hacker thinking about the missed opportunity. Who needs a fake ID if you can intercept a whole truck of Budweiser?

Otto—the Uber-owned startup for self-driving semitrucks—last week partnered with Anheuser-Busch on a test to deliver a trailer-load of beer from Fort Collins, Colo., through the Denver metro area, and on to Colorado Springs near Pikes Peak.

Driving down I-25, the autonomous truck steered itself for 120 miles with 51,744 cans in tow.

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