Shanghai (ZXZC)- TuSimple, a China-based autonomous truck technology startup, announced that its self-driving truck fleet has by far driven for 100 days at a deepwater port in a Northern city of China.

Reportedly, the startup's self-driving truck fleet has been ready for commercial use even under some special weather condition like rainy day. The fleet has by far been practically tested with over 2,000 standard containers and 40,000-plus standard containers have been involved in simulation tests.

According to the video disclosed before, a fleet comprising three TuSimple's self-driving trucks smoothly interacted with the facilities at pier, such as bridge crane and tyre crane, under the control of TOS (terminal operating system) and successfully transported containers after they were unloaded from the ship without any human intervention. In addition, the video also showed that the self-driving fleet reliably completed transport operation even under such poor conditions as rainy night, wet and slipper roads as well as poor luminance.

In April, TuSimple announced that the company had started to operate horizontal transportation in port using self-driving container trucks and unveiled a piece of video that demonstrated the globally first-time port horizontal transportation executed by self-driving trucks. 

TuSimple said in last November that it had raised $55 million in a Series C funding round led by Composite Capital. Existing investors Sina, operator of China's biggest microblogging site Weibo, and ZP Capital also participated in the round. The startup, which was founded in 2015, planed to use the new influx of investment to scale up its testing to two full self-driving truck fleets in China and the U.S.