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Waymo Via (autonomous trucking)

Waymo's autonomous-trucking program (Waymo Via), which applied the Waymo Driver to Class 8 trucks and ran supervised freight pilots with UPS, J.B. Hunt, and Wayfair (and a Daimler Truck partnership). Waymo suspended the Via trucking program in July 2023 to focus on robotaxi, and it was never revived. The Waymo Driver continues only in Waymo's robotaxi application.

Waymo Via (autonomous trucking) is a truck robot built by · Documented in 1 deployment in Texas.

discontinuedDiscontinued. The product or service is no longer actively pursued by the maker.


Machine-readable surfaces

Form factor
truck
Maturity stage
pilot
Lifecycle
discontinued
Deployments
1
ID
8bc88129-5b50-4ac9-85fa-64438647ce0f

Specs

end
trucking program suspended July 2023
type
Class 8 autonomous truck program
autonomy
Waymo Driver
historicalPeak
supervised freight pilots

Recent deployments (1)

Runs on (1)

Supply chain

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Sources (3)

  1. https://waymo.com/blog/2021/11/waymo-via-expands-partnership-with-ups
  2. https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/14/j-b-hunt-will-be-waymos-first-self-driving-freight-customer/
  3. https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/26/waymo-puts-the-brakes-on-self-driving-trucks-program/