autonomous driving

Conducted at full operating speed of up to 65 mph (approximately 105 km/h), the product acceptance test underscores Torc's progress in autonomous driving capabilities and prepares the company to be able to scale and commercialize safe, robust autonomous trucking solutions by 2027.

Teams in Sweden, Germany, and the U.S. worked in close partnership to ensure seamless deployment of the autonomous driving software. This included establishing a well-defined process for software release and testing, which now features a structured cadence: offline testing, closed-course evaluations...

After several months of stringent testing and validation, the program will use a new production intent design of the IVECO S-Way heavy-duty truck equipped with Plus’s driver-supervised highly automated driving software, the patented PlusDrive. This brings the PlusDrive-enabled IVECO S-Way one step c...

ZF Mobility Solutions will be the engineering partner for the integration, validation and deployment of converted vehicles, which can be used in mixed traffic operations without special lanes for on-yard logistic solutions. Aidrivers is the chosen partner in such project.

According to MAN, in the long term, the efficient use of autonomous trucks can reduce overall operating costs by ten to 15 per cent. The new technology can also alleviate the driver shortage. There is already a shortage of up to 100,000 truck drivers in Germany alone.

Volkswagen aims to develop an autonomous Level 4 service vehicle for large-scale production. The target is to use this vehicle in the commercial sector, for mobility and transport services in Europe and the USA. The main part of the agreement covers delivery and use of a self-driving system (SDS) fo...