ASI Brings Lessons From a 300-Vehicle Autonomous Mine Fleet to Equipment Managers at AEMP EQShift 2026
Most talk about autonomous vehicles is about robotaxis. The longest-running driverless fleets are somewhere else: in mines, on farms and in industrial yards, where there are no pedestrians and the routes repeat all day.
Autonomous Solutions Inc. (ASI), a Utah company that has been automating off-road vehicles for more than 25 years, will share what it learned from one of the biggest of these fleets at AEMP EQShift 2026 in New Orleans, November 16 to 18. ASI is presenting with RDO Equipment Co., a large John Deere dealer, in a general session titled “The Autonomous Fleet Is Here. Are You Ready for What’s Next?”
The fleet behind the talk
ASI’s largest deployment runs 76 ultra-class haul trucks and 250 auxiliary vehicles, more than 300 connected machines managed remotely from over 1,300 kilometers away. Across that ecosystem, ASI says its Mobius software has logged 4.5 million kilometers of autonomous driving and moved 300 million tons.
Mobius is what ASI calls fleet orchestration. One control system runs driverless, remote-controlled and human-driven vehicles side by side, across equipment brands. That last part matters on real sites, where a mine or contractor owns a mix of makes and can’t replace them all at once.
ASI has also moved into farming, including an autonomous tractor deployment with U.S. Sugar and Everglades Equipment Group.
The hard part isn’t the truck
ASI’s CEO, Mel Torrie, frames autonomy as an operating decision. His point is that the machine is the easy part. Success depends on whether the site, the workforce and the surrounding technology are ready for it.
The session promises five questions equipment leaders should ask before committing. The themes are site readiness, how jobs change for operators and mechanics, and how autonomy plugs into existing fleet management and project delivery.
ASI cites a striking adoption gap: fewer than 3% of industrial operations use autonomy, even in sectors where it has been shown to work. The company blames trust more than technology.
For contrast with the road side of autonomy, where robotaxis are scaling in Texas, see Waymo Outnumbers Tesla Robotaxi 10 to 1 in Texas.