CORNELIUS, N.C. — NASCAR is known for its world-class drivers, but lately some of its deliveries have not required one.

A fully driverless 18-wheeler helped deliver tires from Mecklenburg County this year for several races in Indiana, marking one of the first real-world commercial deployments of autonomous trucking in motorsports logistics.

What You Need To Know • Race tires from Cornelius, North Carolina were delivered to a NASCAR race in Indiana using driverless trucks • Kratos Defense is a security and IT company that has developed an autonomous trucking system • The trucks travel in pairs in a leader-follower system mimicking every move from the first truck

The technology comes from Kratos Defense, a security and IT company that has developed a “leader-follower” trucking syste

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