TuSimple cofounder and CTO Xiaodi Hou is the architect of its self-driving software. The target is to have semis with Level-4 autonomous capability–meaning they can drive without human input–on the market by 2024. Navistar International Corp.“We see that they are fairly advanced, and we are together advanced in this effort,” Lisboa tells Forbes. More recently, Aurora, led by former Google GOOGL Self-Driving Car Project chief Chris Urmson, also pivoted into autonomous trucks. Truckmaker Navistar is partnering with self-driving tech startup TuSimple TuSimple(For more, see Robo-Rigs: The Scientist, The Unicorn And The $700 Billion Race To Create Self-Driving Semi-Trucks from the May 31, 2019, issue of Forbes Magazine.)

Source: Forbes July 15, 2020 12:00 UTC