---
title: "Uber Self-Driving Truck Autonomously Drives 120 Miles to Deliver Beer"
description: "The first delivery from Uber's Otto division contained 51,744 cans of Budweiser. Here's to Otto."
date: "2016-10-25"
modified: "2016-10-25"
authors:
  - name: "Aaron Brown"
    job_title: "Staff Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/aaron-brown"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/5689/uber-self-driving-truck-autonomously-drives-120-miles-to-deliver-beer"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Autonomous Cars"
  - "Beer"
  - "otto"
  - "Trucking"
  - "Uber"
---

# Uber Self-Driving Truck Autonomously Drives 120 Miles to Deliver Beer

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Uber's self-driving truck division, Otto, [linked up with beer company Anheuser-Busch](<https://blog.ot.to/proudly-brewed-self-driven-95268c520ba4#.jg66n9ppv>) and the state of Colorado to transport its first load of cargo that consumers will be able to buy from brick-and-mortar store shelves.

The truck used cameras, lidar sensors, and radar to keep of track of obstacles and other motorists while traveling on the 120-mile route between Fort Collins and Colorado Springs. While the truck's computer was doing its thing, a driver was in the truck, outside of the driver's seat, monitoring the rig's autonomous movements. Otto claims the drive required [zero interaction from the human driver](<https://blog.ot.to/proudly-brewed-self-driven-95268c520ba4#.jg66n9ppv>) inside the cabin.

51,744 cans of Budweiser were delivered on the trip.

Otto claims that with its self-driving technology, other motorists can feel assured that its trucks driver safer and more efficiently than those with a human behind the wheel.

Last week, *The Drive* reported on Uber's CEO, Travis Kalanick, comments on and predictions about the future of self-driving trucks. "It’s going to take a while before all those trucks are autonomous everywhere it needs to go," Kalanick said. The CEO also explained that he believes Otto will primarily work to sell retrofittable self-driving hardware kits with which truck owners can modify their own rigs. These kits would likely still require a driver to be inside the confines of the rig without maintaining control of its actions.

https://youtube.com/embed/Qb0Kzb3haK8

Beer delivered by a truck that drives itself surely doesn't help knock down the "lazy, beer-drinking American" stereotype. It's cool and all, but seriously. What's next? Beer can-to-mouth via drone delivery?

Actually, that sounds kind of great.

## Author
Aaron was previously a contributing writer with Jalopnik and has also written for Business Insider covering cars. When he's not in the office writing the news, you'll probably find him thrashing a beater car around a RallyCross.

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