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Minutes later, with Embark Driver reengaged, the system smoothly navigated the now wide and clear 10-lane highway, approaching an off-ramp and steep curve. But probably is not good enough when pedestrians are involved.ĭisengagements are increasingly rare. The truck probably could have gotten through the scene without human intervention, Rodrigues said. “So I’m going to take us beyond our norm.” “I had to go beyond that onto the shoulder to make sure I gave that police officer extra room,” she said. The more practice we give it the better.” Embark co-founder and CEO Alex Rodrigues That’s what we’re working on having it handle.
But we want to put it through these places where we know we’re likely to get accidents and slowdowns. “Cruising down the highway is the easy part for this truck. Morrison, a 25-year veteran driver who used to haul a fuel tanker, decided to take over the truck’s operation, disengaging the Embark Driver as a police officer paced onto the accident scene directly in the lane. “We’re a little more up-front in setting out the plan.”įinally reaching the tangled and mangled Penske vehicle, our truck began looking for a way to avoid police and emergency vehicles - one of the items on Embark’s to-do list. “None of our competitors have demonstrated any of those five,” Rodrigues said. Embark Trucks technology timeline (Source: Embark Trucks) The remaining challenges to removing the driver are: pulling over to safety emergency vehicle interactions evasive and emergency maneuvers inspections and blown tire and other mechanical failures. Navigating a crash scene is one of five challenges remaining for Embark as it readies its plug-and-play autonomous system for installation on trucks from the Big Four truck makers: Freightliner, Volvo, Paccar and Navistar International.Įmbark has checked off 11 things it needs to safely operate without a driver. “Accident 1,000 feet ahead,” he reported. analyst Jeff Osborne, seated with me in the rear of the cab, punched up the traffic conditions on his phone.
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After several minutes of full stops followed by inching forward, Rodrigues asked rhetorically: “Wow, what is going on? The truck is doing great, but the road …” Uh-oh, accident aheadĪs the slow-motion ride dragged on, Cowen Inc. Minutes after merging onto the interstate, traffic began to crawl, similar to rush hour earlier in the morning. He had no idea how challenging this ride would turn out to be. Rodrigues has hosted dozens of autonomous demonstrations in recent years. Video screens embedded in the backs of the driver and passenger seats were equipped with a visualizer that showed what the truck was seeing in real time. In the passenger seat next to safety driver Beverly Morrison, Rodrigues occasionally wrote notes on a laptop and narrated the journey. “What we’re doing here is going to represent the hardest stuff you might see over many full days of driving packed into an hour,” Embark co-founder and CEO Alex Rodrigues said. The rumble of the diesel engine combined with voices muffled by face masks required speaking loudly.
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With the autonomous system engaged, the 2020 Peterbilt 579 exited a parking lot, drove about five blocks on surface streets and entered an I-880 on-ramp at Hegenberger Road in Oakland, following a route around the East Bay.Įmbark Driver smoothly handled the stop-and-go and lane jockeying, reacting to drivers darting into its lane and moving lane to lane as openings appeared. A large black 2½-foot tall box containing the super-powered computer unit that is the robot’s brain was installed in the sleeper portion of the truck. Other than a small screen in the dash indicating autonomous engagement, the truck interior is identical to a stock model. Route of Embark’s autonomous truck demonstration (Source: Google Maps)
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It lasted 1:45.Įmbark invited FreightWaves to experience the state of the Level 4 Embark Driver software it plans to sell to fleets that order from major truck manufacturers beginning around 2024, the year most of its competitors expect to launch driverless trucks.
The ride was supposed to take about an hour and 10 minutes. The wreck was an unexpected highlight of a ride in Embark Trucks’ high-autonomy truck around the East Bay on a sun-drenched Thursday morning last week. How the Penske box truck managed to jump a concrete road barrier on Interstate 880 didn’t matter to other motorists stuck in the 20-minute traffic jam it caused.
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