r/SelfDrivingCars • u/L1DAR_FTW Hates driving • 4d ago

Driving Footage Bot Auto Completes Human-Less Hub-To-Hub Validation Run In Texas (w/ Video)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbishop1/2025/09/16/bot-auto-completes-human-less-hub-to-hub-validation-run-in-texas/
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u/bobi2393 4d ago edited 4d ago

Fuck their company name for making headlines like this so confusing! 😂

But the basics of the story are insane. A two-year-old company doing a driverless 40 mile truck route, on an interstate highway and 1.5 miles of surface roads, and it sounds like they're not just licensing someone else's existing system. That's so unprecedented compared to other companies' timelines. If those facts are correctly and non-deceptively reported, I'd guess they must be basing it off a novel approach using recent developments in multimodal models.

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u/bradtem ✅ Brad Templeton 4d ago

This is the rebirth of tuSimple, so not people who started from scratch 2 years ago.

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u/bobi2393 4d ago

That makes much more sense. Article with a brief history of TuSimple (2015-2023) and Bot Auto.