{"id":27425,"date":"2025-10-29T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/?p=27425"},"modified":"2025-10-29T04:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:23:00","slug":"waabi-and-volvo-unveil-new-self-driving-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/waabi-and-volvo-unveil-new-self-driving-truck","title":{"rendered":"Waabi and Volvo Unveil New Self-Driving Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Points<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Self-driving startup Waabi and automaker Volvo have unveiled a new autonomous truck. The truck is powered by Waabi&#8217;s &#8220;Waabi Driver&#8221; AI software.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Waabi&#8217;s CEO claims the company could be the first to commercialize trucks without a human driver.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The system can handle both highway and surface street driving.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Waabi is already testing in Texas and plans to expand across the U.S. in the coming years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Self-driving truck startup Waabi has unveiled a new autonomous truck, built in partnership with Volvo. The &#8220;Volvo VNL Autonomous&#8221; truck is the first product to emerge from the collaboration between the two companies, announced just eight months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The truck is based on Volvo&#8217;s new autonomous vehicle platform, but it&#8217;s powered by Waabi&#8217;s own self-driving software, the &#8220;Waabi Driver.&#8221; The company says its software is an &#8220;end-to-end AI model&#8221; that can handle both highway driving and more complex surface streets, a key to making the technology commercially viable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waabi&#8217;s CEO, Raquel Urtasun, made a bold claim during the unveiling, saying the company could be the first to commercialize self-driving trucks <em>without<\/em> a human safety driver or observer. This was a subtle dig at a rival, Aurora, which launched its own driverless service earlier this year but later added a human observer to the truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aurora also has a partnership with Volvo, and the two companies are using the same truck model. But Urtasun emphasized that Waabi&#8217;s version is different because of its integrated technology. &#8220;Volvo VNL has been built from the ground up for the redundancies so that you can remove the human driver,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waabi is already testing its trucks in Texas and plans to expand nationwide over the next few years. The partnership with Volvo, a major player in the trucking industry, is a big vote of confidence in the startup&#8217;s technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points Self-driving truck startup Waabi has unveiled a new autonomous truck, built in partnership with Volvo. The &#8220;Volvo VNL Autonomous&#8221; truck is the first&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}