TuSimple explores withdrawal from U.S. autonomous truck market
The autonomous driving know-how vendor TuSimple is “exploring strategic alternate options” for promoting off its U.S. operations and increasing its self-driving truck enterprise in China, the corporate stated Thursday.
The choice comes a month after TuSimple’s inventory was de-listed from buying and selling on the NASDAQ alternate as a consequence of failing to file sure monetary varieties. The corporate had additionally launched its CEO in 2022 whereas weathering accusations of sharing its know-how with a Chinese language enterprise.
Regardless of these company troubles, TuSimple has taken a number of strides towards rising enterprise success overseas in current weeks.
On June 8, the corporate stated it had gained a totally driverless check license awarded by Pudong New Space of Shanghai, permitting it to conduct SAE Degree 4 totally autonomous “driver out” testing. TuSimple China has collected check mileage of over 373,000 miles and achieved zero incidents and highway violations in that nation.
Only a week later, TuSimple introduced it had accomplished China’s first totally autonomous semi-truck run on open public roads with out a human within the car and with out human intervention. The autonomous car drove a 38-mile course on the designated public roads authorised by the Shanghai authorities, together with Yangshan Deep-water Port Logistics Park and Donghai Bridge.
Based on TuSimple, its autonomous truck navigated complicated highway and climate circumstances in each city and freeway environments throughout the port space, together with site visitors indicators, on-ramps, off-ramps, lane modifications, emergency lane autos, partial lane closures, fog, and crosswinds. The run was operated by TuSimple China’s “Autonomous Driving System” platform with out a human on-board, with out distant human management of the car, and with out site visitors intervention, the corporate stated.
