The mine road is unstructured, the line shape is changeable, and the color of the road surface is similar to that of the mountains on both sides. In order to make up for the deficiency of the segmentation effect of the road detection model based on shape and color, a driving area segmentation method based on rut texture features is proposed. Initially, the collected images are preprocessed in the region of interest. Secondly, the gray level co-occurrence matrix(GLCM) is used to obtain the characteristic parameters of the rutting area, and four texture feature indexes are used as the input feature vectors of the genetic algorithm(GA) to obtain the optimal segmentation threshold. Finally, by filling the hole noise in the segmented image, a complete drivable area is obtained. The comparison test shows that the proposed segmentation method based on rut texture features can effectively overcome the problem that the road is similar to the background color and is difficult to segment. Compared with other similar segmentation methods, the segmentation effect of the road has better accuracy and robustness.