Deployment
Waabi Driver Autonomous Truck at Dallas-San Antonio Corridor, Texas, USA
The Waabi Driver Autonomous Truck is the autonomous heavy-truck product of Waabi, recorded in the truck form factor as the Waabi Driver generative-AI virtual driver running on a truck platform. Made by Waabi, founded in 2021 in Toronto and led by chief executive Raquel Urtasun, the former chief scientist of Uber's ATG self-driving unit, it is genuinely AI-primary: a single end-to-end generative-AI model, the Waabi Driver, that the truck cannot drive without, trained and validated in the Waabi World generative-AI closed-loop simulator and running on NVIDIA DRIVE Thor compute.
The current go-forward platform is the Volvo VNL Autonomous, Volvo's purpose-built, redundancy-equipped tractor into which the Waabi Driver is vertically integrated, following a partnership announced in February 2025 and the truck's unveiling on October 28, 2025; this is distinct from the registry's separate Volvo VNL Autonomous entry for Volvo's own program. Waabi has run commercial freight on the roughly 385-kilometer Dallas-Houston lane with Uber Freight under a ten-year deployment commitment, but the load-bearing fact is that every run is safety-driver-supervised: Waabi's defining fully-driverless target was the end of 2025, and it was missed, slipping into 2026 and beyond pending validation of the Volvo VNL Autonomous platform, so the registry records the maturity as pilot and does not assert that driverless operation has been achieved.
The differentiator claim of interpretable and verifiable AI safety is Waabi's own and is recorded as a claim. On funding, Waabi raised a $200 million Series B in June 2024 and a $750 million Series C in January 2026, co-led by Khosla Ventures and G2 Venture Partners with NVIDIA, Volvo, and Porsche, plus a roughly $250 million milestone commitment from Uber tied to a deal to deploy at least 25,000 autonomous vehicles, as the company expanded beyond trucking into robotaxis.
Named shippers beyond Uber Freight are not verified, and Waabi's safety-driver-supervised Dallas-Houston running should not be conflated with Aurora's separate driverless operations on the same corridor.
Waabi Driver Autonomous Truck by Waabi · Catalog entry · 3 sources · not yet field-verified · Trucks
Recent coverage
- Waabi demonstrates zero-shot AI transfer across autonomous truck platformsAutonomous Vehicle International · 2026-07-03
- Waabi, Volvo Claim Breakthrough in Scaling Autonomous TruckingBen Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-06-26
- EXPO NEWS: And the winners are…Autonomous Vehicle International · 2026-06-24
ONE-OFF TEST (not commercial ops). Reported via Forbes (Alan Ohnsman, 22 Sep 2026; CEO Raquel Urtasun quotes): Waabi said a test truck ran about 300 miles (~480 km) Dallas to San Antonio on highway without prior route simulation, practice runs, or new real-world data for that route; safety driver present; company claimed no interventions; about 4.5 hours at about 60 mph average.
Framed as company-claimed / CEO-reported to Forbes. No matching Waabi blog primary found for this specific run as of ingest. Distinct from the commercial Dallas-Houston Uber Freight corridor (see waabi-uber-freight-dallas-houston and waabi-uber-freight-texas).
Stack: Waabi Driver on Waabi truck platform. Do not treat as a commercial lane or driverless milestone.
Key facts
- Framing
- One-off / test run only; not commercial ops; not Dallas-Houston Uber Freight
- Route (company-claimed)
- Dallas to San Antonio, Texas highway; about 300 miles (~480 km)
- Supervision
- Safety driver present (company-reported)
- Interventions (company-claimed)
- Company said no interventions; not independently verified
- Duration / speed (company-claimed)
- About 4.5 hours; about 60 mph average
- Route familiarity (company-claimed)
- No prior route simulation, practice runs, or new real-world data for this route (CEO-reported to Forbes)
- Source quality
- Forbes secondary (Ohnsman, 22 Sep 2026) via SyncAI / Forbes Mexico mirrors if paywalled; no Waabi primary for THIS run
- Stack
- Waabi Driver (brain) on waabi-truck; operator Waabi
- firstSeen basis
- 2026-09-22 = Forbes report date; exact calendar day of the run not disclosed in cited sources
Exposure
- Customer segment
- logistics
- Scale tier
- pilot lt10
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Safety record
No incidents on record for Waabi Driver Autonomous Truck at Dallas-San Antonio Corridor, Texas, USA.
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- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 3 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-09-24
- Company
- Waabi
- Operator
- Waabi
- Status
- pilot
- Operator type
- maker operated
- Scale at site
- 1 unit
- Site environment
- outdoor
- Location precision
- city centroid
- First seen
- 2026-09-22
- ID
966c4166-e66e-4098-b9eb-5fb38521f30d
Timeline
- Sep 2026First recordedWaabi Driver Autonomous Truck first documented operating at Dallas-San Antonio Corridor, Texas, USA.
- Sep 2026Current status: pilot, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
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Operates worldwide
Waabi Driver Autonomous Truck is deployed globally rather than at a single verified site, so there is no map pin.
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Sources (3)
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2026/09/22/this-robotrucker-says-its-ai-now-drives-highways-without-advance-training/ · 2026-09-22
- https://syncai.news/article/this-robotrucker-says-its-ai-now-drives-highways-without-advance-training-ce1282 · 2026-09-22
- https://forbes.com.mx/esta-empresa-de-camiones-autonomos-afirma-que-su-ia-ya-circula-por-autopistas-sin-entrenamiento-previo/ · 2026-09-22
Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-24
Verification posture
Verified
Medium confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-24
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: pilot
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: truck
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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