SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 16, 2026--
PlusAI, a Physical AI leader transforming transportation with AI-based autonomous driving software, today announced that SuperDrive™, its Level 4 autonomous driving system for commercial trucks, has been named to Fast Company’s 2026 World Changing Ideas list. This year’s awards highlight 191 outstanding projects for their impact, sustainability, design, creativity, scalability, and ability to improve society.
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“We are honored by this recognition from Fast Company for the progress we have made in moving autonomous trucking from breakthrough technology to commercial reality. After more than a decade of development, we have reached an industry inflection point where autonomous trucks are beginning to show their potential to improve road safety, strengthen supply chains, and address driver shortages,” said David Liu, CEO and Co-Founder of PlusAI. “We are excited to expand the global impact of SuperDrive with our partners including Scania, MAN and International of the TRATON GROUP, Iveco Group, and Hyundai Motor Company. Our focus now is on the large-scale deployment of factory-built autonomous trucks starting in 2027.”
SuperDrive is being deployed globally. PlusAI is running autonomous fleet trials in Texas with International, placing factory-integrated autonomous trucks powered by SuperDrive into real freight operations for Ryder. The trials have consistently delivered loads on schedule, achieving a 100% on-time delivery rate. In Europe, PlusAI and IVECO are advancing Southern Europe’s first autonomous trucking program with Spanish logistics operator Sesé.
Built on more than seven million miles of real-world driving across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, SuperDrive brings AI into freight transportation. At its core is PlusAI’s AV2.0 architecture, which leverages latest AI advances, including end-to-end driving models, Vision-Language-Action capabilities, world models, and independent safety guardrails, to help autonomous trucks interpret complex highway scenes, reason through driving decisions, and operate safely in real-world freight environments.
This latest recognition builds on a growing track record of industry accolades for PlusAI’s autonomous trucking technology, including being named to TIME’s Best Inventions 2025 for the autonomous XCIENT Fuel Cell Class 8 heavy-duty truck project conducted with Hyundai Motor.
Over the last six months, PlusAI has continued to strengthen the technological, safety, and operational foundations required for commercial deployment of SuperDrive by:
PlusAI has also expanded the impact of SuperDrive by providing its underlying software development platform named HyperFoundry™ to the automotive ecosystem. HyperFoundry has already generated $25 million in contracted revenue year-to-date, demonstrating demand for industrial-grade data, tools, and infrastructure used to develop and validate autonomous and Physical AI systems.
As PlusAI builds towards the 2027 commercial launch of factory-built autonomous trucks integrated with SuperDrive, the company continues to advance its mission of transforming transportation through Physical AI.
To learn more about why freight movement matters and how autonomous trucking benefits society and economy, visit https://plus.ai/why-autonomous-trucking.
About PlusAI
PlusAI is a global physical AI company pioneering AI-based virtual driver software for factory-built autonomous trucks. Its SuperDrive™ and HyperFoundry™ solutions accelerate the scalable development and deployment of autonomous vehicles. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with operations in the United States and Europe, PlusAI was named one of Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies. PlusAI is working with global commercial vehicle makers and ecosystem partners including TRATON GROUP’s Scania, MAN, and International brands, Hyundai Motor Company, Iveco Group, NVIDIA, Ryder, Bosch, DSV, and Goodyear to bring next-generation autonomous trucks to market. For more information, visit www.plus.ai or follow PlusAI on LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.
About Fast Company
Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with our sister publication Inc., and can be found online at www.fastcompany.com.
Fast Company Names PlusAI’s SuperDrive™ a 2026 World Changing Idea for Bringing Physical AI to Commercial Freight
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres visited Haiti on Tuesday, where surging gang violence has left more than 1 in 10 people homeless.
New statistics released by the U.N. reveal that 2,300 people have been killed across Haiti so far this year, with another 100 kidnapped, while 1.5 million have been displaced. Among those abducted is James Boyard, cabinet director of the Defense Ministry, who was kidnapped last week in one of the few relatively safe areas of the capital.
Guterres’ one-day visit to Port-au-Prince comes after more than 30 people were killed, injured or missing last weekend in Cité Soleil, a seaside slum, according to Cooperative for Peace and Development, a local human rights organization.
His convoy sped past a neighborhood once fully controlled by gangs that left in their wake decimated car dealerships, abandoned homes and dozens of concrete buildings pockmarked with bullet holes. A colorful bus known as a tap-tap rumbled past, its windshield peppered with bullet holes.
Graffiti scrawled on a crumbling concrete wall read: “Down with Viv Ansanm, long live the police.” Viv Ansanm is a powerful gang federation that the U.S. government designated a foreign terrorist organization. It is estimated to control 70% of Port-au-Prince.
Guterres traveled past dozens of Haitians who fled the clashes and now live in makeshift homes under large pieces of canvas strung up with frayed rope.
They are among the more than 300,000 people displaced by gang violence across Port-au-Prince — a record. Among them are more than 18,000 people who fled the Cité Soleil slum in May, according to the U.N. International Organization for Migration.
“Haiti’s displacement crisis is entering an even more alarming phase,” Gregoire Goodstein, IOM chief of mission in Haiti, said in a recent statement.
Guterres’s first stop was the headquarters of the new gang-suppression force, which the U.N. Security Council approved in September. It replaces a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police that aimed to help Haiti’s National Police fight gangs but remained underfunded and understaffed. So far, Jamaica, Chad, El Salvador and Guatemala have deployed troops that number less than 1,000 to form part of the growing force, which is due to start operations in the coming weeks.
They are expected to work with Haiti’s National Police and its growing Armed Forces, with hundreds of Haitian men and a couple of women lining up on a dusty road hoping to interview to join.
Guterres then met behind closed doors with Prime Minister Alix Didier-Fils-Aimé, who is under pressure to hold elections in the country of nearly 12 million people that hasn’t had a president since Jovenel Moïse was killed at his private residence in July 2021.
“We had a frank conversation about what’s happening in Haiti, the vision the government has for the future,” Fils-Aimé told The Associated Press after the meeting.
He said security is a priority so the transitional government can hold elections and “get back to republican rule.” Fils-Aimé added that Guterres can help with that effort by ensuring that the countries backing the gang-suppression force “live up to their engagement.”
Guterres also stopped by a makeshift shelter in a former school where dozens of the people living there crowded around him.
Forced to flee their homes after gangs shot up their community and set fire to it, some had been living there for up to four years.
“Solino is not ready,” 31-year-old Clifford Lala said of going back to his community. It was one of the last holdouts in Port-au-Prince until gangs overran it.
Guterres ducked into a hot classroom and met privately with a group of six women who decried the lack of privacy at the shelter, even to shower or use the bathroom, and said they worried about their young children.
"It’s skin-to-skin and mouth-to-mouth,” said one woman.
The shelter houses more than 1,200 people who sleep side by side, and only one meal a day is guaranteed.
“We’re going to do our best,” Guterres told the women.
Outside, a man began to slap the building’s metal siding and bellowed, “We want to go back home!” His voice grew louder and angrier as security walked into the room and whisked Guterres away.
Wendy Cejour, 26, told the AP that he and his family have been living at the school for a year and a half.
“As long as we’re alive we have hope, but … things are difficult,” he said. “We ask ... to return to our neighborhood to live better, because we don’t have a life here.”
A day before Guterres’s visit, Human Rights Watch published a letter urging him to protect the population and target the root causes of violence and human rights abuses. Guterres said he was deeply impacted by what he saw.
“What I saw will not leave me,” he said. “Each day is a fight to survive. ... The women and the children pay the highest price.”
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres greets soldiers from Chad at a base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)
Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, front center, walks with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as Guterres arrives to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)
