https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/08/starsky-robotics-raises-a-16-5-million-series-a-for-its-self-driving-trucks/

San Francisco-based autonomous trucking company Starsky Robotics announced this morning that it’s closed a $16.5 million Series A, led by Shasta Ventures. The news comes as the company also announced that it recently completed a seven-minute drive on a closed course without a single human in the truck — as seen on this GoPro footage.

“If you need a person in the vehicle, you’re not solving the problem,” co-founder and CEO Stegan Seltz-Axmacher told TechCrunch on a call prior to the announcement. “There are quite a number of places where right now you can pilot unmanned vehicles on the road. The reason people haven’t done unmanned testing isn’t because of regulation. That’s an easy excuse.”