Tuesday, March 19, 2019
TuSimple Aims New Product At Self Driving Truck Market
San Diego-based TuSimple, a startup which is developing camera and vision systems for the self-driving truck market, announced on Tuesday that it has launched a new vision system which it hopes to deploy into self-driving truck fleets. According to the company, its system will go into volume production in Q2, and will be deployed in Q3 of 2019. tuSimple says its systems are based on CMOS image sensors from Sony Semiconductor Solutions, and will work at night and in low light operation. TuSimple says it is hoping to increase the number of trucks that its systems are installed on to 50 trucks by June. TuSimple says it has so far raised $95M in funding for its products, which it says are already being used in "daily autonomous trips" hauling freight. The company says its is operating self-driving trucks out of Tucson, Arizona.