Kodiak Driver Sets New Uptime Record By Running 64 Consecutive Days on an Unsupervised Driverless Truck
Key Highlights
- ➤Kodiak Driver achieved 64 consecutive days of continuous uptime on an unsupervised driverless truck
- ➤Five additional Kodiak Driver trucks each surpassed 45 consecutive days of continuous uptime
- ➤Atlas Energy Solutions fleet totaled 35 driverless trucks and over 40,000 paid operating hours
- ➤Kodiak targets expanding the Atlas Permian fleet to 100 trucks by mid-2027
- ➤Kodiak plans driverless highway launch on Interstate 45 by end 2026
Expert Statements
Don Burnette, Founder and CEO of Kodiak
“Uptime is a critical measure of reliability and operational performance for our customers”
Don Burnette, Founder and CEO of Kodiak
“These milestones reflect the dedication of our team and the dependability of the Kodiak Driver, underscoring the importance of consistent performance as we scale our commercial operations.”
Don Lepard, Vice President of Operations at Kodiak
“Maintaining sustained uptime for more than two months demonstrates the reliability and operational performance of the Kodiak Driver in our driver-as-a-service model”
Don Lepard, Vice President of Operations at Kodiak
“These milestones reinforce the dependability of our technology and the strength of our operational execution as we prepare to scale both our industrial and long-haul trucking commercial deployments.”
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kodiak AI, Inc., (Kodiak”) (Nasdaq: KDK), a leading provider of Physical AI-powered autonomous driving technology, today announced that an unsupervised driverless truck equipped with the Kodiak Driver, the company’s autonomous driving system, achieved a record 64 consecutive days of continuous uptime, never powering off or re-starting.
Both the autonomy stack and truck were running and available for service in the company’s industrial deployment in the Permian Basin in a streak that began June 30 and ended Sept 1, 2026.
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