Torc and Virginia Tech formed team VictorTango to compete in the DARPA Urban Challenge. Their car navigated many traffic scenarios without a driver in four hours and 36 minutes, finishing third. The DARPA Urban Challenge is often cited as a launching point for the autonomous vehicle industry.

Torc and Virginia Tech engineers developed GUSS (Ground Unmanned Support Surrogate), integrating a self-driving system on military vehicles to support service members. GUSS vehicles worked to keep them out of harm’s way and increase carrying capacity.

Torc and Virginia Tech partnered with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) to outfit a vehicle with sensors and technology to enable a visually impaired person to drive using haptic feedback and assistance from the vehicle’s sensors. On January 29, 2011, a visually impaired driver demonstrated the technology at the Daytona Speedway by driving independently on the race track.

Torc and the defense firm Critical Solutions International (CSI) developed autonomous capabilities for the HUSKY military vehicle as a route clearance application in potentially dangerous environments.

Torc demonstrated its technology with Project Asimov in a cross-country journey from Washington D.C. to Washington state, becoming the first certified autonomous vehicle pilot test in Washington after the state introduced its 2017 Autonomous Vehicle Pilot Program.

The trip concluded with a visit to Gov. Terry McAuliffe at Virginia’s Executive Mansion, after completing 5,300 autonomous miles.

Torc demonstrated its self-driving Asimov vehicles at the CES 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. During the week-long event, they navigated stop-and-go traffic on the strip, highway merges, tunnels and a surprise rain-storm on the conference’s first day.

Torc and AAA announced a partnership to establish safety criteria for self-driving vehicles and create a public street testing program.

Torc partnered with the French public transportation company Transdev to develop a fully autonomous shuttle platform.

Daimler Trucks, a trucking leader, joined forces with Torc to commercialize highly automated trucks (SAE Level 4) on U.S. roads.

In September 2019, Torc and Daimler Trucks began actively testing their self-driving trucks on public highways in Virginia. The deployment on public roads took place after months of extensive testing and safety validation on closed courses.

Torc and Daimler Trucks look to the future and expand their joint autonomous truck road testing to New Mexico with the establishment of a test center in Albuquerque, NM.

Austin’s mix of creative technology talent and its freight-lane-dense location make it the perfect place for Torc to innovate software engineering and Product Development.

The Stuttgart team supports the ongoing development of SAE Level 4 virtual driver for deployment in autonomous trucks in the United States.