Daimler Trucks North America · self-driving truck
Freightliner Inspiration Truck
A Freightliner Cascadia-based demonstrator with Daimler's Highway Pilot system, which steered and kept speed on highways while a licensed driver stayed behind the wheel.
- Price
- —service only, not sold
- Autonomy
- SupervisedHow it runs
- Driverless
- Not yetSafety driver on board
- Fleet
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Range
- —Not published
Why it matters
Daimler said Nevada's licence made it the first autonomous commercial truck licensed for an open US public highway (5 May 2015).
Real-world use
Logged over 10,000 test miles before Nevada licensed it; it was a demonstrator, not a product.
Maker
Daimler Trucks North AmericaCompanyHow it drives
Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.
- Driverless status
- Safety driver on board
- Where it runs
- Nevada public highways (licensed testing)
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current vehicles.
- 252 views of its Wikipedia article in the last 90 days (Freightliner Inspiration)
- No recent press stories listed yet
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.
From the maker
Freightliner Inspiration Truck is the only vehicle from Daimler Trucks North America in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedservice only, not sold
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Freightliner Inspiration TruckDaimler Trucks North America |  Otto self-driving truck (Volvo VNL)Otto (Uber)Same jobs: freight, demonstration · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  Waymo Via autonomous Class 8 truckWaymoSame job: freight · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  Embark autonomous truck (Peterbilt 579)Embark TrucksSame job: freight · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
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| First shown | 2015-05-05 | 2016-10-25 | 2017 | 2017-02 |
| Status | Retired | Retired | Discontinued | Discontinued |
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Sources
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