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HUMBLE EMERGES FROM STEALTH WITH $24M AND A CABLELESS AUTONOMOUS ELECTRIC TRUCK BUILT TO GO DOCK-TO-DOCK
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Humble is a San Francisco-based autonomous freight startup that just emerged from stealth with a $24 million seed round. The company's fully electric, cabless freight vehicle, the Humble Hauler, is built for 40-foot and 53-foot shipping containers. It has no driver's cab, allowing the company to fit 360-degree sensor coverage, free up payload capacity, and enable a fundamentally different vehicle geometry. The Hauler can operate dock-to-dock, delivering directly to the destination and unloading rather than dropping a trailer off at a handoff point.