Self-Driving Truck Completes Successful Run in Arizona

A self-driving truck developed by TuSimple, like this one, was used in an 80-mile test drive of the automated technology in Arizona on Dec. 22, 2021. Courtesy of TuSimple

A long-distance test of a driverless big-rig truck cab in Arizona went without a hitch on Dec. 22, completing the world’s first live demonstration of a fully autonomous long-haul vehicle on open roads.

TuSimple Holdings announced on Dec. 29 that the specially updated Class 8 semi-truck successfully made the 80-mile test drive without a human in the vehicle.