News Summary

• Kodiak AI wants to deploy semi trucks on highways without a human behind the wheel.
• The company’s autonomous driving system, called the Kodiak Driver, launched in December 2024.
• It has so far been deployed in 35 fully driverless trucks, which are owned and operated in the Permian Basin in New Mexico and Texas.
• The trucks haul frac sand, typically used during hydraulic fracking to help keep fractures in rock formations open, from depots to well sites.
• Kodiak wants to bring its driverless operations to the highway, starting in Texas with services for furniture giant Ikea later this year.