Driverless electric truck starts deliveries on Swedish public road
Esha Vaish
JONKOPING, Sweden (Reuters)
Resembling the helmet of a Star Wars stormtrooper, a driverless electric truck began daily freight deliveries on a public road in Sweden on Wednesday, in what developer Einride and logistics customer DB Schenker described as a world first.
Robert Falck, the CEO of Swedish start-up Einride, said the company was in partnership talks with major suppliers to help scale production and deliver orders, and the firm did not rule out future tie-ups with large truckmakers.
“This public road permit is a major milestone ... and it is a step to commercializing autonomous technology on roads,” the former Volvo executive told Reuters.
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Einride’s T-Pod is 26 tonnes when full and does not have a driver cabin, which it estimates reduces road freight operating costs by around 60 percent versus a diesel truck with a driver.
Besides Schenker, Einride has orders from German grocer Lidl, Swedish delivery company Svenska Retursystem and five Fortune 500 retail companies, underpinning its ambition to have 200 vehicles in operation by the end of 2020.
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Les camions T-Pod ont une capacité de 20 tonnes.
Autonomes et supervisés à distance
Les T-Pods d'Einride sont «conduits» par un logiciel de conduite semi-autonome, mais supervisés par un humain, à distance, comme des drones, dans un centre de contrôle regroupant des opérateurs gérant chacun plusieurs camions. Les manoeuvres aux abords des entrepôts peuvent être faites par les opérateurs à distance si le camion est confus par un obstacle ou du trafic imprévus. Einride dit que dans un réseau intégré fonctionnant optimalement, chaque opérateur pourrait s'occuper de dix camions, réduisant ainsi la main-d'oeuvre.
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