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> In 2019, our truck became the first fully-unmanned truck to drive on a live highway.

Uber drove an autonomous truck on a live highway to deliver beer for Anheuser-Busch back in October 2016

https://fortune.com/2016/10/25/uber-anheuser-busch-first-aut...

There was a person in the vehicle. Amusingly - many VCs who "should know better" fell for the same error. I'd regularly get in arguments with investors about whether others had done unmanned or not.

In the sleeper cabin monitoring the vehicle. The main cabin was unoccupied and there wasn't a single intervention for the entire trip. I knew people involved with that trip at the time.

The difference between "in the sleeper cab" and "outside the truck" are huge. We first started doing in the sleeper cab in Jul'17, took us 2 years of dedication to get confidence to remove from vehicle.

To take the person out of the vehicle, the system itself needs to be able to self-monitor and pull itself over if it stops working. That's the big lift.

That's it. The team at Uber did that like a year or so later but with no public fanfare because it wasn't considered noteworthy. That still puts it at ~2 years prior to this accomplishment.

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