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Big news about self-driving, coming from Tucson.
Tucson Future Unmanned Vehicle Company, starting from Tucson City, Arizona, and ending near Phoenix, has completed a feat in the history of global driverless freight and even global driverless development.
Its unmanned heavy trucks, on a full 80-mile-equivalent public road equivalent to more than 120 kilometers, have achieved end-to-end, fully unmanned driving from warehouse to warehouse.
That's right, there was no security guard and any human intervention throughout the whole process.
It's still the night road.
The whole process lasts up to 1 hour and 20 minutes.
There is no road test at all, and it has experienced a variety of road conditions and scenarios
Different from autonomous freight on high-speed trunk lines.
Tucson departed from a railroad port near Tucson City, Arizona, usa, and the driverless truck traveled more than 80 miles at night to reach a large logistics distribution center near Phoenix safely.
In the process, there are both urban road conditions and high-speed road conditions, and also to deal with traffic lights, up and down ramps, emergency lane vehicles and lane changes.
In addition, although driving at night, the traffic density on the road may not be as high as during the day, but in the United States, where infrastructure such as highways is relatively aging, the challenge is still not small.
This time, Tucson really showed his technical strength and made big news at the same time.
Tucson said that the fully unmanned test is an important part of Tucson's future research and development project, which will last until 2022.
The all-human test was completely operated by Tucson Future's self-developed unmanned driving system, with no safe drivers in the car, and no remote control of the vehicle and other traffic conditions.
In order to ensure the public safety of all unmanned testing, Tucson will maintain close cooperation and communication with relevant government regulators and law enforcement agencies in the future, and equipped with safety and security vehicles to ensure the safety of fully unmanned testing operations.
Of course, the completion of this unmanned road test is the best embodiment of Tucson's technical level.
Lu Cheng, president and CEO of Tucson Future, said that the realization of fully unmanned testing is a very significant technological milestone, which not only demonstrates the leading performance of Tucson's future driverless systems, but also shows the importance Tucson attaches to safety and collaboration during the testing process.
Lu Cheng also said that since the beginning of this year, a lot of resources have been invested in the focus to promote the landing of open road unmanned road tests.
It is now the first to be realized in the world, once again proving Tucson's future leadership in the entire field of driverless heavy trucks.
Tucson revealed internally that the fully unmanned trial operation project lasted more than one and a half years of development and accumulation.
The goal is to develop an unmanned system that meets the requirements of the L4 level and ensure that its redundancy, reliability and stability can be fully unmanned and safe operation on open roads.
For Tucson, no one is also the most important indicator in the stage of commercialization and scale operation.
In tucson's IPO this year, the most important thing in its TuSimple Autonomous Freight Network (AFN) is to drive humans out of the driver's seat.
Whether it is a former driver or a safety officer at this stage.
Only by really driving human drivers out of the driver's seat of the truck can the goal of reducing costs and increasing efficiency be maximized.
The L4 self-driving truck, developed by Tucson in partnership with its shareholder carmaker, will be available in 2024.
At that time, special unmanned trucks, large-scale commercial landing, and completely unmanned public operation... What comes with it is the ultimate solution for autonomous driving in the field of truck freight.
Well, a rowing boat.