"Volvo Autonomous Solutions today unveiled Volvo's first-ever production ready autonomous truck at the ACT Expo in Las Vegas. The Volvo VNL Autonomous brings together Volvo's commercial vehicle expertise with industry-leading autonomous driving technology from Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ: AUR)."
"Today" was May 20th.
"This truck is the first of our standardized global autonomous technology platform, which will enable us to introduce additional models in the future, bringing autonomy to all Volvo Group truck brands, and to other geographies and use cases."
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"The new Volvo VNL Autonomous has been made with safety in mind. The Volvo VNL Autonomous therefore has redundant steering, braking, communication, computation, power management, energy storage and vehicle motion management systems."
"The Aurora Driver consists of powerful AI software, dual computers, proprietary lidar that can detect objects more than 400 meters away, high-resolution cameras, imaging radar, and additional sensors, enabling the Volvo VNL Autonomous to safely navigate the world around it."
"The Aurora Driver has been extensively trained and tested in Aurora's sophisticated virtual suite where it's driven billions of miles. It also has driven 1.5 million commercial miles on public roads, where it deftly navigates end-to-end trucking routes traversing highways, rural roadways, and surface streets day and night and through good and bad weather."
"The Volvo VNL Autonomous will be assembled at Volvo's flagship New River Valley (NRV) plant in Dublin, Virginia."
The Volvo VNL Autonomous -- proving the way forward
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