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ACCELERATING
TRUCK AUTONOMY
FEV employs a digital twin fed with data
from the fleet to identify potential failures
early in the development process.
a fallback safety architecture to make sure that there
isn't a single point of failure in our technology stack. "
To ensure that the different types of steering, braking
and throttle systems were within specification for the
Embark Driver system, developers spent " a lot of time
at the test track performing extreme maneuvers, modeling
the profiles of different systems, " said Moak.
" Ultimately, we get to a point where we can be compatible
with actuators that come from multiple suppliers. "
Moak anticipates that OEMs will start shipping their
first production trucks with redundant drive-by-wire systems
in the near future. " We're in an active dialogue with
the OEs as they plan sensor and compute options to offer
to different carriers for these drive-by-wire systems, "
he said. The EUI program will generate " novel learnings "
around standardized sensor placement, vehicle communication
protocols, telematics standardization, power
management and other areas that will inform Embark
partnership and integration decisions with each OEM.
Further in the future, Embark expects truck OEMs to
offer multiple AV options to carriers. " They'll have
multiple non-exclusive integrations when this industry
ultimately matures, " Moak said. " I think carriers, the
ones who actually move the trucks, make the ultimate
decision on which AV system and hardware they want
beneath that. We want to position ourselves to be
ready for that. "
A carrier's take on the universal interface program?
" Embark's investment to integrate its autonomous
driving system with the major OEMs will allow us to
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The Embark Gateway is an
automotive-grade controller that
enables API communication with
OEM drive-by-wire systems.
test and deploy autonomous trucking capabilities without introducing
a new OEM into our fleet for that sole purpose, " said Trevor
Fridfinnson, chief operating officer at Bison Transport.
Making sense of all that data
Transforming raw data to high-quality structured data is a critical path
to properly fueling machine-learning (ML) models and deploying AI
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