Self-Driving Truck Engineer at @KodiakRobotics!
David is in California
Joined March 2008
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David Silver retweeted
We’re on track to launch long-haul driverless trucks on the highway by EOY. Our Autonomy Readiness Measure (ARM) tracks how much of our safety case is complete. ARM hit 96% in September, up from 93% in August, our fastest month yet. See you on the highways real soon.
David Silver retweeted
The AI safety debate is mostly abstract. But AV safety isn't. The Kodiak Driver runs driverless trucks in the Permian today, and @tomwblack at @business @opinion lays out why that's the blueprint for keeping AI safe:
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
David Silver retweeted
We're naming our lane: Dallas to Houston. We've run this route since 2019 on our way to logging more than 3.5 million autonomous miles. We know this lane. Now we're nearly ready to run it with no one in the cab.
kodiak.ai/news/kodiak-names-…
Join us tonight!
Signal. returns September 24 with Dr. Wei Zhan, co-director of Berkeley DeepDrive and the BAIR Center for Humanoid Intelligence.
Join us for a conversation on AI for scalable autonomous systems.
6-7 p.m. at Kodiak's Mountain View HQ. Space is limited.
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David Silver retweeted
Loaded, a triple-trailer truck weighs about 200,000 pounds more than it does empty. Brake for the wrong one and the configuration either goes unstable or overshoots its stop. So the Kodiak Driver estimates the mass of every load before it moves it.
kodiak.ai/news/driverless-tr…
Belated, but a couple of weeks ago I went New York to ring the opening bell on the NASDAQ. It was awesome! I even got my photo on Times Square for a hot second.
David Silver retweeted
There’s nothing else like driverless triple trailers in Physical AI.
“Triples” have already delivered substantial utilization and efficiency gains for our industrial customer, @atlas_energy_, and they’ve fueled our flywheel effect, driving improvements in the Kodiak Driver across our highway and defense verticals.
Check out how @KodiakRobotics' world-class team made this massive marvel a commercial reality below!
A driverless truck hauling triple trailers runs 50 meters and weighs 275,000 pounds loaded. It isn't really three trailers either. Two dollies connect them, so the Kodiak Driver is tracking five articulating pieces behind the cab.
How we got there:kodiak.ai/news/driverless-tr…
David Silver retweeted
A driverless truck hauling triple trailers runs 50 meters and weighs 275,000 pounds loaded. It isn't really three trailers either. Two dollies connect them, so the Kodiak Driver is tracking five articulating pieces behind the cab.
How we got there:kodiak.ai/news/driverless-tr…
One of my big achievements @KodiakRobotics this year was leading the effort to support hauling triple trailers - a world first!
kodiak.ai/news/driverless-tr…
Check out @PeterCBigelow on his trip to the Permian Basin, to observe Kodiak autonomous trucks in action!
kodiak.ai/news/america-needs…
David Silver retweeted
On Feb 26, Andreas Wendel joins PAVE to talk about what it takes to scale driverless trucking once pilots end and real operations begin.
11am PT | Virtual
Register via PAVE us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
My @KodiakRobotics colleague, Sandeep Baddam, describes how our trucks drive autonomously through potholes, puddles, and ditches on the dirt roads of the Texas oilfields.
kodiak.ai/news/negative-obst…
David Silver retweeted
Defining moments of 2025.
Kodiak expanded customer-owned driverless operations, advanced AI and safety, strengthened defense work, moved manufacturing to production, and became a public company.
kodiak.ai/news/best-of-2025
David Silver retweeted
Don Burnette sat down with TechCrunch’s @kirstenkorosec to talk going public, timing the AI cycle, and why real driverless operations mattered before stepping onto the public markets.
Watch the full @TechCrunch Disrupt segment below.
youtu.be/1LNJpsuUMBM?si=OK6G…
David Silver retweeted
Kodiak has signed a business combination agreement with Ares Acquisition Corp II (NYSE: AACT), a key step toward going public. A new chapter in scaling Kodiak’s driverless tech across trucking and public sector is beginning.
Learn about the transaction – kodiak.ai/news/kodiak-to-go-…
Driverless @KodiakRobotics in West Texas! davidsilver.blog/2024/08/05/…