Waabi successfully transferred its autonomous driving system between truck platforms without new engineering, data collection or retraining, according to a June 26 press release. The Waabi Driver, originally trained to operate a Peterbilt 579, was deployed on the Volvo VNL Autonomous through a “generalized zero-shot transfer.” Waabi compared the capability to a human driver switching vehicle without relearning how to drive. Most autonomous driving systems require additional engineering, testing and validation each time they’re adapted to a new vehicle platform, but Waabi says its generalized AI architecture eliminates that step. As of Q1 2025, Waabi’s technology could already adapt across different operational design domains. “Road testing the Volvo VNL Autonomous, integrated with the Waabi Driver, on public roads is an important proof point of our partnership with Waabi,” Nils Jaeger, president of Volvo Autonomous Solutions, said in the release. The announcement comes as Volvo Autonomous Solutions advances its own commercialization plans, stating in June that it would go fully driverless on U.S. highways beginning in Q1 2027 and planned to have more than 300 autonomous trucks in operation by the end of next year. Volvo Group’s venture capital arm became a strategic investor in Waabi in January 2023, and later invested $200 million in the company.