Trucking news and briefs for Friday, March 24, 2023:Trucking groups launch new Clean Freight CoalitionA group of trucking industry stakeholders on Thursday announced the launch of the Clean Freight Coalition, which aims to promote future cleaner truck transportation in a way that assures affordable and reliable freight movement.\nThe five founding members of the coalition are the American Trucking Associations, Truckload Carriers Association, National Tank Truck Carriers, Truck & Engine Manufacturers Association, and the American Truck Dealers group.\nJim Mullen, former acting administrator at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, will serve as CFC’s executive director.\n“Trucking is the backbone of our economy and critical to the nation’s supply chain,” Mullen said.\n“This spring, our electric rental trucks will make their debut in Texas,” said Roemer.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"On the road to Autonomy, Qualcomm Drives Progress and Innovation","slug":"on-the-road-to-autonomy-qualcomm-drives-progress-and-innovation","publishDate":"2023-03-21 09:45:25","createdLocal":"2023-03-25 14:30:34.538674","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Ride Platform drives innovation en route to fully autonomous vehiclesRapid advancements in technology and a collective love of sci-fi have Americans all revved up for a future driven by fully autonomous vehicles.\nUniting nearly all players is Qualcomm Technologies’ Snapdragon Ride Platform, a scalable and open ADAS and autonomous driving solution that offers unprecedented capabilities and flexibility to automakers and developers.\nQualcomm Technologies is continuing to build global momentum in advanced driver assistance and the autonomous driving segment with its Snapdragon Ride Platform.\nFor example, Qualcomm Technologies has become the go-to partner for developing high-performance hardware solutions for hands-free driver assist systems.\nAs a scalable platform, Snapdragon Ride allows automakers to develop their own applications and capabilities, as well.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Ford CEO teases 2025 electric pickup as Millennium Falcon of trucks","slug":"ford-ceo-teases-2025-electric-pickup-as-millennium-falcon-of-trucks","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-03-25 14:30:33.859999","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Ford on Friday confirmed the project name for its next-generation electric truck: Project T3.\nProject T3 - future Ford electric pickup projectThe announcement came just before an event scheduled Friday to preview the company’s mammoth BlueOval City plant in Tennessee, which Ford says will be capable of producing 500,000 electric trucks a year at its peak rate.\nBlueOval City construction, March 2023Ford has confirmed that multiple products will be produced at the BlueOval City plant, including from the Lincoln luxury brand.\n“PJ O’Rourke once described American pickups as ‘a back porch with an engine attached,'” said Farley in an accompanying release.\nIn the case of the new Tennessee facility, it’s using recovered heat from the utility infrastructure plus a geothermal system.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"It’s An Electric Train, But Don’t Call It An Electric Train","slug":"its-an-electric-train-but-dont-call-it-an-electric-train","publishDate":"2023-03-24 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-25 14:30:33.179773","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"The $4.5 Million Electric Train Of The FutureParallel contacted CleanTechnica by email with an update this week, and it looks like they put those ARPA-E dollars to good use.\nTo the extent that electric rail vehicles can replace diesel trucks, that’s a big win for the shipping industry overall.\nLet’s Thank Texas For This Electric TrainOf course, no mention of electric trains would be complete without a mention of Texas.\nThat includes the electric train of the future.\nFind me on LinkedIn: @TinaMCasey or Mastodon: @Casey or Post: @tinamcaseyImage: Autonomous electric train courtesy of Parallel Systems (via Dropbox).
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Future of $900B US trucking industry could be decided in California","slug":"future-of-900b-us-trucking-industry-could-be-decided-in-california","publishDate":"2023-03-23 13:30:08+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-25 14:30:32.002455","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"California already has rules governing self-driving cars and delivery trucks that weigh less than 10,001 pounds.\nNow, the California Department of Motor Vehicles is gathering information for potential new rules that would let self-driving semi-trucks weighing as much as 80,000 pounds on the road.\nLabor unions aren’t waiting around for that to happen.\n“There is no way they can think like that.”But beyond safety issues, labor unions see the technology as a threat to their jobs.\nThe Autonomous Vehicle Industry Assn., an industry trade group that supports self-driving technology, has argued that autonomous trucks would make for safer roadways, asserting that computers make fewer mistakes than humans.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Waymo is taking on the task of writing a safety case for the entire AV industry","slug":"waymo-is-taking-on-the-task-of-writing-a-safety-case-for-the-entire-av-industry","publishDate":"2023-03-22 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-23 14:31:12.419070","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Waymo published a paper today outlining a safety case for autonomous vehicles that the company says should serve as a blueprint for the entire industry.\nWaymo isn’t the first company to push for the adoption of a broad safety case for AVs.\nAurora, which was founded by former Google self-driving car project lead engineer Chris Urmson, published its own safety case framework nearly two years ago.\nIt’s not clear whether other competitors will follow suit and adopt its safety case.\n“We have arguments to back up why we think this is the right way forward.”Updated March 22nd 7:44AM ET: Updated to clarify that the paper Waymo published outlines a blueprint for a safety case, and not the safety case itself.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Researchers helping autonomous vehicles learn to react to bad drivers, adverse conditions","slug":"researchers-helping-autonomous-vehicles-learn-to-react-to-bad-drivers-adverse-conditions","publishDate":"2023-03-22 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-23 14:31:11.679497","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Autonomous vehicles are very much a part of our transportation future.\nThe engineers at the autonomous vehicle campus at MCity are using a new virtual testing environment.\nHe says now these AVs can learn from these simulated situations and adverse weather conditions that they will encounter in real life.\nIt will also dramatically reduce the amount of time spent on safety testing for developers and regulators.\nLike 89.1 WEMU on Facebook and follow us on TwitterContact WEMU News at 734.487.3363 or email us at studio@wemu.org
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Dense reinforcement learning for safety validation of autonomous vehicles","slug":"dense-reinforcement-learning-for-safety-validation-of-autonomous-vehicles","publishDate":"2023-03-23 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-23 14:31:10.601421","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"One critical bottleneck that impedes the development and deployment of autonomous vehicles is the prohibitively high economic and time costs required to validate their safety in a naturalistic driving environment, owing to the rarity of safety-critical events1.\nHere we report the development of an intelligent testing environment, where artificial-intelligence-based background agents are trained to validate the safety performances of autonomous vehicles in an accelerated mode, without loss of unbiasedness.\nD2RL enables neural networks to learn from densified information with safety-critical events and achieves tasks that are intractable for traditional deep-reinforcement-learning approaches.\nWe demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by testing a highly automated vehicle in both highway and urban test tracks with an augmented-reality environment, combining simulated background vehicles with physical road infrastructure and a real autonomous test vehicle.\nIn addition, D2RL will enable accelerated testing and training with other safety-critical autonomous systems.
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