Joby Aviation completed the first autonomous flight across the United States on a converted Cessna Caravan, flying 3,199 miles from California to North Carolina's Outer Banks with zero pilot control inputs. The aircraft demonstrated autonomous taxiing, takeoffs, navigation, and landings while being remotely supervised, showcasing applications in commercial freight, medical transport, disaster response, and military logistics.
India completed its 2,800 km Dedicated Freight Corridor last week, a railway network built exclusively for cargo trains to avoid delays from passenger services. However, the corridor's success depends on solving the last-mile connectivity problem: trucks must still transport goods to and from freight terminals, creating a bottleneck that limits the corridor's efficiency gains.