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We're on the home stretch of preparations for our driverless long-haul launch

Kodiak AI Autonomous Vehicles Product September 22, 2026

In this case, the home stretch is an actual stretch of highway. What you're watching is a final check, a full run of the lane, start to finish, without our safety observer touching anything. Runs like this give us confidence in the target we've set: driverless long-haul launch before the end of the year.

Why this matters for talent

This is Kodiak's second post this week detailing final validation runs ahead of its planned driverless long-haul launch by year end, reinforcing that the company is in the last stretch of safety validation rather than early testing. Kodiak has 65 open roles on the board for candidates who want to join before the unsupervised launch.

Read the original LinkedIn post. Curated by Larry Sherwood Jr. from company announcements; analysis above is my own.

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