Regulator
Arkansas's State Highway Commission let Gatik and Walmart take the safety driver out of their trucks.
A regulator's decision · Company-reported · Sets Gatik's stage
What the source says
“received the Arkansas State Highway Commission's first ever approval to remove the safety driver”
What it means
Gatik, from Gatik AI, is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: Our sources report it working without human help.
More on Gatik
- Gatik raised $200 million, led by the Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies.
- Gatik said it had made more than 85,000 fully driverless deliveries.
- Gatik said 10 trucks were earning money with no human driver aboard, and it had made 60,000 fully driverless deliveries since mid-2025.
- Gatik and Isuzu agreed to build self-driving trucks in volume, with Isuzu investing $30 million in Gatik.
- Gatik began running box trucks with no one on board for Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas, between a Walmart dark store and a Neighborhood Market.
- Gatik began commercial delivery work in 2019, with safety drivers on board.