Specialized commercial vehicle autonomy could take 10 to 20 years
Sanjit Biswas · The Biggest AI Deployment Nobody Talks About | Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas · Jul 29, 2026 · at 56:05
Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas tempers expectations around self-driving commercial vehicles due to the custom and specialized nature of equipment like cement mixers and garbage trucks.
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“So for that reason, we think the adoption might be a bit slower, but it's not like a no, it's just, it might take 1020 years. And these are industries where, again, the equipment's highly specialized. Like if you look at cement mixers or you know, garbage trucks, like these are custom built. So for the autonomy systems to make their way out to that edge, it's just going to be a longer diffusion curve than, you know, for a sedan, which is, or a van or something like that, which is very much the same.”
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