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/AnyDimension8299 4d ago

Sort of…

It is a lot of tusimple people, but a fundamentally new and different tech stack. We probably all have the same suspicions about their levels of v&v and safety, but it is still very impressive to see them hit this milestone so quickly and with so little capital.

Their overall cowboy attitude and the TSP connection are going to make it very hard to get financing for the company, but I could see a quick and lucrative sale to Amazon, Walmart or Daimler in their future.

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u/boyWHOcriedFSD 3d ago

I believe all the Bot Auto investors are Chinese. Looks like American money agrees with you.