Bot Auto completed a 230-mile delivery this week, which was its first Houston-to-Dallas route.
HOUSTON — Companies building the first driverless trucks have long promised to go on the road without a human in the cab at all, and a Houston-based company said it’s made good on that promise this week.
Bot Auto completed a 230-mile commercial delivery this week, its first Houston-to-Dallas run. Co-founder and CEO Xiaodi Hou confirmed that the truck did not have a safety observer and said the run was a validation of Bot Auto’s safety framework, which puts the vehicle in charge of responding to scenarios it encounters.
“Right now, everyone in this industry is a money shredder, and this trip demonstrates that we are a money printer, not a money shredder,” Hou said in an interview with the Houston Business Journal. “The biggest headaches (in this industry) don’t have to do with scale; they have to do with availability — is your system robust? Can it let the vehicle to go out every day to fulfill missions and pick up orders?”
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