Year 2025 for the self-driving industry
2025 was the year when self-driving tech and operations made a substantial leap forward. Waymo started driving commercially on highways — a major bet that shows their technology scales.
Tesla released FSD v14 that carried us all the way from Mountain View to SF and back at night without a single intervention. We (Avride) launched commercial service in Dallas with Uber. The technology is here to stay and will only get better and bigger.
This is great news for robotics and autonomous vehicles. Robotics is notoriously hard due to the chaotic nature of the real world — this is why robots started in warehouses where chaos is minimal. Self-driving comes next. Roads are still somewhat structured, but the long tail of rare events remains unsolved. But we make progress. The next frontier is general robotics. The breakthrough won't come overnight, but we are moving in the right direction. What a time to be alive!