Update
7 Jul 2023
TuSimple: Autonomous Truck Difficulties
TuSimple is one of the leaders in the development race for autonomous trucks. However, it has recently encountered some difficulties and is considering exiting the US.
Full profile interview: Partners
18 Oct 2022
RoboSense: Automotive LiDAR
TuSimple is a leader in autonomous trucking, based in the US.
Background: Competitors
16 Oct 2022
Plus: Autonomous Trucking
Autonomous trucking industry leader.
Update: Competitors
12 Aug 2022
Waymo: Autonomous Trucking
TuSimple is likely Waymo's biggest competitor, with a large fleet of trucks, good partnerships, large amounts of funding (through funding rounds and an IPO), and trailblazing through industry milestones.
Update
9 Aug 2022
TuSimple: Autonomous Trucks on the Verge of Commercial Deployment
TuSimple is one of the biggest and best-funded companies working on autonomous trucks. It has been expanding its network of autonomous compatible roads, making partnerships with potential commercial customers, and engaging in the most advanced stages of testing. In December 2021, TuSimple became the first company to operate a completely unmanned mission from Tucson to Phoenix in Arizona, US.
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Full profile interview: Competitors
30 May 2022
Fusion Processing
US company TuSimple are developing autonomous systems for trucks. While not a direct competitor, the technology is likely to be transferable and thus could target buses in the future, although they are operating in a different region.
Full profile interview: Competitors
8 Nov 2021
MAN: autonomous heavy goods haulage
TuSimple are developing autonomous truck technologies.
Background: Competitors
16 Aug 2021
Aurora
TuSimple is an autonomous trucking company that will rival Aurora.
Full profile interview
21 Aug 2018
TuSimple
TuSimple is a startup founded in 2015. The company has now closed $82 million in financing to develop an autonomous software for a level 4 autonomous truck by 2020.
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