Imagine 80 million self-driving trucks. Nuport Robotics wants to make every truck autonomous

<p>Nuport Robotics just landed a deal with Canada's largest retailer, Canadian Tire, and the Canadian government to test its self-driving truck capability. The technology uses lidar, cameras, and radar to guide trucks. And the company has a vision to make every truck self-driving ... not just brand-new ones coming right out of the factory.</p> <p>That's a big deal, because there's about 80 million trucks on the planet right now that don't have self-driving capability. And transport companies aren't going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for new trucks just for some new tech.</p> <p>Not, at least, if they can get it aftermarket.</p> <p>In this episode of TechFirst with John Koetsier, I chat with the CEO of Nuport, Raghavender Sahdev, about how his solution works, and what their new project with Canadian Tire means.</p> <p><strong>Episode links:</strong></p> <p>TechFirst transcripts: https://johnkoetsier.com/category/tech-first/</p> <p>Nuport: https://www.nuport.ai</p> <p>Keep in touch: https://twitter.com/johnkoetsier&nbsp;</p> <p>Forbes columns: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/</p>