Kodiak AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: KDK) announced plans to launch unsupervised driverless long-haul trucking service on the Dallas-to-Houston freight corridor by the end of 2026, according to a company statement.

The Mountain View, California-based company began its driverless long-haul launch program in August and says it now consistently completes deliveries between its Lancaster, Texas, hub and Houston without human intervention. During these runs, a safety observer present in the vehicle did not touch the steering wheel, including on surface streets.

The route spans 219 miles along Interstate 45, connecting the Dallas–Fort Worth and Houston metropolitan areas. Kodiak has operated on the Dallas-Houston lane since 2019 using safety drivers and has accumulated more than 3.5 million autonomous miles on that corridor.

As of the end of August, Kodiak's Autonomy Readiness Measure, which tracks the percentage of claims and evidence in its safety case that are materially complete, stood at 93%. The company said it expects to reach 100% and commence driverless highway operations by year end.

Concurrently, Kodiak is conducting driverless tests at closed-course test tracks to stress-test its system under conditions it describes as too rare or risky to replicate on public roads.

The announcement builds on Kodiak's existing commercial driverless operations in the industrial sector. In December 2024, the company began hauling freight with no one in the cab for Atlas Energy Solutions in the Permian Basin of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. As of June 30, 2026, the Kodiak Driver had been integrated into 35 Atlas-owned trucks and surpassed 40,000 cumulative hours of paid driverless operations.

"We are on track to complete our preparations and launch driverless highway service by the end of this year," said Don Burnette, founder and chief executive officer of Kodiak.