Self-driving
Waabi and Volvo showed the Volvo VNL Autonomous, a truck built with backup systems so the human driver can be removed.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported
What the source says
“Volvo VNL has been built from the ground up for the redundancies so that you can remove the human driver.”
What it means
Waabi Driver, from Waabi, is at stage 3 of 5 on our ladder: pilot. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: A staff member rides along, ready to stop it.
More on Waabi Driver
- Volvo and Waabi began hauling freight for customers in Texas, starting with Warp, between Dallas and Houston. A person still sits in the driver's seat.
- Waabi raised $750 million. Uber also agreed to put at least 25,000 robotaxis using Waabi's software on the road.
- Waabi said its trucks finished test runs with no one on board, on a closed test track, not public roads.
- Waabi teamed up with Volvo's self-driving unit to build and run self-driving trucks.
- Waabi raised $200 million, led by Uber and Khosla Ventures.
- Raquel Urtasun, formerly chief scientist at Uber's self-driving unit, started Waabi in 2021.