Navistar, TuSimple finish autonomous tech partnership
Navistar and TuSimple are ending an settlement to mass produce autonomous vans.
The businesses introduced Monday that whereas they’re ending their improvement settlement, it “doesn’t preclude the businesses from working collectively sooner or later,” based on a joint assertion. The pair formalized an settlement in 2020 to create autonomous tractors in North America by 2024.
“We have now confirmed our expertise works, and I’m dedicated to addressing the considerations of stakeholders,” TuSimple CEO Cheng Lu mentioned within the launch. “I firmly imagine on this firm and its potential to enhance the protection and effectivity of the trucking trade by means of world-class autonomous driving expertise.”
The preliminary settlement included plans to promote absolutely autonomous vans by means of Navistar within the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Even earlier than the July 2020 formal partnership was introduced, the businesses had been working collectively for about two years, based on a TuSimple securities submitting in December 2020.
TuSimple’s former interim CEO Ersin Yumer, who has since been changed by Cheng Lu, mentioned on a Nov. 1 earnings name that there have been no plans to alter the corporate’s 2023 commercialization technique.
The severed settlement doesn’t imply Navistar has given up on an autonomous driving technique, Srinivas Gowda, Navistar’s vice president of autonomous autos, mentioned in an announcement.
“Navistar believes autonomous driving applied sciences will likely be a key part of a future transportation and logistics system,” Gowda mentioned, “and is dedicated to the event of a protected and environment friendly autonomous driving resolution.”
