Ex-SpaceX engineer Matt Soule believes his autonomous rail cars could help ease the trucker shortage. Parallel Systems' rail freight cars could take over long-haul cargo routes from truckers, he said.

Second generation Parallel Systems autonomous-electric rail vehicle. Vehicle is designed to carry cargo containers that might otherwise by transported by trucks or traditional freight trains. No ...

Matt Soule, the co-founder and CEO of Parallel Systems, worked at SpaceX for 13 years and left in July 2019. Moving freight by rail takes far less energy than moving the same freight by long haul ...

A California startup co-founded by three former SpaceX engineers has emerged from stealth with a plan to build autonomous electric vehicles to haul freight by rail, and has raised a sizable pot of ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Railroad Administration will allow Parallel Systems to test its autonomous, self-propelled flatcar system on a pair of Genesee & Wyoming short lines in Georgia. The FRA last ...

Mile-long, slow-moving diesel trains loaded with cargo chugging slowly across the U.S. could be a thing of the past one day if stealth startup Parallel Systems has its way. The Los Angeles company ...