Fireside Announcement🎙️ Driverless Freight, Built Inside a Global Truckmaker. A fireside with Peter Vaughan Schmidt of @torc_robotics, moderated by @Reuters' @abhiruproy30. 🗓️ San Francisco, July 16th 📍 The Midway 🎟️ autonomousfuture.co Torc builds driverless trucks from inside one of the largest truckmakers on earth. A truly unique position to be in. Torc develops autonomous Class 8 long-haul trucks as an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck, which holds a majority stake. The software team builds on the company's manufacturing, dealer network, and freight relationships, rather than recreating everything from scratch One of the few credible answers to how autonomous trucking reaches the road at scale. Coming to the stage at #AUTONOMOUS2026

How driverless freight actually gets priced, sold, and integrated into fleet operations has barely been worked out. We're delighted to have Chief Commercial Officer of @torc_robotics, Andrew Culhane, join us at AUTONOMOUS. → Leads go-to-market for Torc, the part of autonomous trucking that the industry has spent the least time solving → His perspective is grounded in the operational reality of selling autonomy to fleets running on tight margins → Torc operates inside Daimler Truck, giving it OEM distribution and integration that few AV startups can match Join Andrew, 50 curated speakers and 500 attendees in San Francisco, July 16th for our premier event. Get tickets - autonomousfuture.co For announced speakers, check our highlights.

Autonomous trucking has been technically credible for almost a decade. Whether it scales has never been about the stack. It's about who can sell driverless freight to fleets at commercial terms. @torc_robotics runs the autonomous trucking arm of Daimler Truck, one of the few AV companies with deep OEM integration behind it. We're delighted to have CEO Dr Peter Vaughan Schmidt join us at AUTONOMOUS. → Leads Torc inside the Daimler Truck ecosystem, the integration most AV trucking startups never had access to → Torc has been running commercial pilot routes between Dallas and Houston, preparing for broader driverless freight deployment → The Daimler-backed model is one of the most credible commercial bets in the AV industry, and Peter is the one executing it Join Peter, 50 curated speakers and 500 attendees in San Francisco, July 16th for our premier event. For announced speakers, check our highlights.