PlusAI, a pioneering force in artificial intelligence, has recently unveiled a comprehensive set of key performance indicators (KPIs) outlining its strategic progress toward the highly anticipated commercial launch of factory-built autonomous trucks. This significant announcement underscores the company’s meticulous pathway to deploying its cutting-edge AI-based virtual driver software, SuperDrive™, by 2027, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of freight transportation.
The first half of 2025 showcased remarkable advancements for PlusAI, with autonomous performance metrics demonstrating steady upward momentum. Safety Case Readiness (SCR) surged to 86%, Autonomous Miles Percentage (AMP) reached an impressive 98%, and Remote Assistance Free Trips (RAFT) climbed to 76%. These figures represent substantial improvements from the latter half of 2024, reflecting PlusAI’s rapid innovation and robust testing protocols in the field of autonomous driving.
For its ambitious commercial launch, PlusAI is strategically targeting 100% Safety Case Readiness and an impressive benchmark of over 90% Remote Assistance-Free Trips. Achieving these critical milestones will unequivocally demonstrate SuperDrive’s unparalleled safety, superior performance, and exceptional operational efficiency, all indispensable qualities for real-world commercial deployment. This would empower trucking fleet operators to execute entire routes seamlessly and safely without any human intervention.
PlusAI is currently engaged in rigorous public road testing, alongside crucial customer fleet trials scheduled for the fall of 2025, solidifying its clear roadmap towards the commercial debut of SuperDrive. The company’s CEO and Co-Founder affirmed an unwavering commitment to the safe and scalable deployment of self-driving trucks, emphasizing the importance of transparent performance metrics for partners, customers, regulators, and all road users to instill confidence in their safety-driven progress.
With over five million miles of real-world operations conducted across the U.S. and other regions, PlusAI has meticulously generated a proprietary dataset that serves as the bedrock for its advanced AI technology development. Leveraging this vast data pool in conjunction with sophisticated generative AI models, PlusAI has engineered a generalizable “driving intelligence” platform, integrating innovative techniques like auto-labeling, model distillation, and highly optimized in-vehicle neural networks.
To ensure paramount safety assurance, PlusAI rigorously employs the safety case approach, a recognized best practice in safety-critical industries such as aviation and automotive. The PlusAI Safety Case Readiness (SCR) metric precisely quantifies the maturity and completeness of its underlying safety framework for SuperDrive’s secure operation. This comprehensive framework is meticulously structured with multi-tiered safety claims, sub-claims, and supporting evidence, all organized around five core pillars covering architecture, processes, performance, and maintenance essential for safe operations.
Evaluating the sophisticated performance of its autonomous system, PlusAI utilizes the Autonomous Miles Percentage (AMP) metric, defined as the proportion of total distance driven by SuperDrive on a specified route completed under full autonomous control, entirely free from remote operator or onboard safety driver intervention. AMP vividly illustrates SuperDrive’s remarkable capacity to sustain autonomous operation across diverse real-world conditions along a commercial corridor, providing a continuous measure of autonomous engagement.
The Remote Assistance Free Trips (RAFT) metric further elucidates PlusAI’s advancements, capturing the percentage of commercial vehicle trips completed without any intervention from a remote operator or an onboard safety driver. A trip qualifies as RAFT-compliant when SuperDrive maintains complete control from departure to arrival without human assistance. While remote assistance remains available for contingencies, RAFT powerfully underscores SuperDrive’s operational independence, technical maturity, and readiness for large-scale deployment.
PlusAI’s groundbreaking AV 2.0 architecture represents a transformative shift in the design and delivery of virtual driver software, moving from hand-written components to sophisticated end-to-end AI models. This innovative approach has profoundly streamlined the entire system while significantly accelerating performance enhancements, positioning PlusAI for broad deployment as their factory-built autonomous trucks commence production in 2027. The company, headquartered in Silicon Valley and recognized as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, continues to forge key partnerships and is slated to go public via a merger with Churchill Capital Corp IX.
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