Tim DraperFounder and Managing Partne, Draper Associate · I back the ideas that look crazy first

One vehicle. One move. Zero people. 🤖💨Will Glid finally be the key in changing the rail industry?

3 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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A logistics veteran with 25 years of experience pitches Glide, an autonomous vehicle that lifts any road trailer or rail cart onto tracks with no modifications needed. It's the only patented technology of its kind and targets defense and industrial parks where finding workers is hard.

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We're Glide. We're the world's first autonomous road-to-rail solution. I've been in logistics for about 25 years. I started my career off in the US Army. And then one thing that I saw across the entire line was logistics was broken. And we're here to fix it today. What we've come up with is a core technology where we have one vehicle, one move, one person, no people at all. We've developed a Gliderverse, what we call it, where we have the vehicle at the top is called Raiden. It's our fully autonomous vehicle with remote capabilities for a human in the loop. for defense as well as industrial parks where compliance isn't really a big deal. You're low on staff, you're low on people, but you want to get the job done. Radon has the ability to get underneath any road-based trailer, any rail-based cart with little to no modification. We utilize infrastructure that is there in place today. So no new infrastructure needed. And then we have the only patent in the world. And how are you thinking about developing the distribution of this? Absolutely. So my answer to that is everywhere, always, all the time. Okay. Everywhere, always, all the time.