If Robert Brown, director of government affairs for the autonomous trucking startup TuSimple, has his way, 2019 will be the year that self-driving trucking hits the mainstream.
“I want to get my mom and dad to ride along,” said Brown during a conversation with FreightWaves at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week. “The goal is to be forward-facing.”
Co-founded by Cal Tech-trained cognitive scientist Xiaodi Hou (who’s also the chief technology officer and U.S. unit president), the three-year-old TuSimple is generating buzz for what it claims is a breakthrough vision system and a significant uptick in the number of autonomous trucks it will put on the road.
