TuSimple, which conducted its first driverless freight run in late December, is moving up its autonomous trucking commercialization plans to late 2023, including intermodal operations with Union Pacific in the Port of Tucson in Arizona this spring.
San Diego-based TuSimple Holdings (NASDAQ: TSP) said Tuesday it has completed seven trips of about 80 miles each with no one in the cab from the Port of Tucson to the Phoenix area. The collective 550 miles had no teleoperations or special traffic...
After a year in which it secured key supplier agreements and expanded its operations base, middle-mile autonomous vehicle provider Gatik is prepared to accelerate its growth and reach this year.
“We are going into sustainable growth,” Sam Saad, vice president of strategic initiatives at the firm, told Modern Shipper during the recent National Retail Federation Big Show in New York City.
Saad said partnerships with Isuzu, Goodyear (NASDAQ: GT), Ryder and sensor companies and the closing of an $85...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/2021-set-the-stage-for-supersonic-growth-for-gatik
As they gathered around a video screen tracking progress of Ghost Rider — the first Class 8 truck with no human driver — navigating its way west toward Phoenix from Tucson, Arizona, TuSimple executives found themselves speechless.
“I mean, we had to kind of take in that moment,” TuSimple President and CEO Cheng Lu told FreightWaves. “You know, with all the work we put into this, and to see it really happen on the highway, I think the word we used most was speechless.”
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TuSimple claims it successfully completed an 80-mile nighttime run on Interstate 10 in Arizona with no driver in the cab — the first to reach the goal in the U.S. among many competitors working on robot-driven trucks.
San Diego-based TuSimple (NASDAQ: TSP) kept secret the timing of the first driverless pilot, announcing Wednesday that the upfitted Class 8 truck left a large rail yard in Tucson, Arizona, on Dec. 22 and covered surface streets and highways for an hour and 20 minutes before safely...
For the autonomous vehicle industry, setting safety standards and regulations is a new endeavor compared to the long-established standards of the traditional automotive industry. Before autonomous trucks reach full commercialization — an achievement TuSimple is striving for in the coming years — AV manufacturers are quickly building evidence to prove the safety of autonomous driving technology.
Self-driving company TuSimple believes it will be the first to launch autonomous freight operations...
It’s no secret that self-driving vehicles are a thing. From trucks to passenger vehicles to middle-mile delivery vans, companies across the transportation industry are doing everything they can to get drivers out of vehicles.
But they can only do so much. Currently, there exists no overarching federal legislation for the regulation of driverless vehicles, with the only framework in place being a patchwork of state-by-state regulations and statutory requirements. That has severely limited their...
Two approaches dominate autonomous trucking: Keep working toward a flawless system that replaces the human driver with a robot. Or market what works today and keep striving for driverless operation.
All developers of high-autonomy Level 4 commercial trucks run real-world miles. Many haul freight on selected routes with safety drivers on board in case something goes wrong. TuSimple generated $1.5 million in revenue from supervised runs on its Autonomous Freight Network in Q2.
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Autonomous vehicle manufacturer Arrival (NASDAQ: ARVL) announced on Monday a successful test run of its automated driving system (ADS) at a fully functioning parcel facility. It’s the first time one of its Arrival Vans has driven around a facility without a driver in tow, performing all daily operations of a commercial fleet driver. The driverless vehicles are intended to boost both safety and efficiency in depots.
The Arrival Van is the most recent addition to the company’s Robopilot project,...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/arrival-and-its-automated-driving-system-reach-major-milestone
DriverReach founder and CEO Jeremy Reymer chatted with Jim Mullen, chief administrative and legal officer of TuSimple, about the not-so-distant future of autonomous trucking.
TuSimple is a San Diego-based, global self-driving truck company that is developing a commercial-ready, Level 4 (SAE) fully autonomous driving solution for the trucking industry. In a partnership with Navistar, TuSimple aims to deliver a Level 4, high-autonomy Class 8 truck to the market by 2024.
There are six levels of...
Stakeholders debated at a congressional hearing Tuesday the extent to which the government should be involved in protecting the workforce against potential negative consequences of vehicle automation.
As the trucking industry advances from semi-automation to driverless trucks, one concern drivers have raised is their eroding privacy as autonomous systems make increasing use of in-cab video monitoring.
“Heavy-duty truck driving is already a highly surveilled occupation; can you speak to the impact...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/lawmakers-raise-driver-privacy-concerns-on-capitol-hill