Uber drive truck first successful delivery: deliver 50,000 cans of beer running 100 miles-IT information

According to foreign media reports, the morning of the 20th of this month, a giant trailer with 18 wheels truck loaded with 50,000 cans of Budweiser beer up the road in Colorado Springs. If normal, it is a common view in the busy morning, but today the Big Mac is different, because it is used on automatic driving technology. Meanwhile, it is also automatic driving a truck transporting goods on the road for the first time.

The Volvo's large trailers filled with cameras and sensors, it is Otto company a member of five test vehicles in August of this year the new company was just acquired by Uber. From behind the weigh station in Fort Collins, the big guy in the absence of any cases of human-mediated ran 100 miles.

"This week, the city of Colorado Springs, someone could drink drive trucks with Budweiser (beer was also marked by the automatic driving vehicles)," said Anheuser-Busch saimubote, Director of company logistics strategy. "This is really cool. ”

Otto co-founder Lille, said officials from the Colorado Department of transportation involved in the trip planning and monitoring automatically driving the whole process. Meanwhile, trailer travel, has been Colorado's patrol followed. Testing throughout the trailer with an average speed of 55 miles per hour (approximately 88-kilometer/h). Lille said on patrol would consider such a giant safe to complete the course is a miracle.

Otto was officially established only in January this year, at first, they only have 40 employees, but these people are from Apple, Google and companies such as Tesla's technology, Daniel, their goal is to change the existing mode of trucking, truck drive replace hard driver. Above Lille, was founded before the Otto is head of Google maps.

When talking about the new owner, Uber, Lille kalannike is very excited for this test, but he is not meddling in the work of Otto, Otto's team still has plenty of autonomy.

Unlike Google, Otto does not design their own trucks, they just automatically drive Kit for retrofitting existing cars. This automatic drive Kit includes two camera responsible for road departure warning, one responsible for scanning laser radar 3D environments, two are responsible for detecting obstacles and the front-mounted radar sensors and a GPS sensor. To be sure, Otto in the line before the test ran 25 times for accurate planning on testing lines.

Lille said their ultimate goal is to make trucks safer. "94% of the accidents are caused by human factors. "Lille said. Automatic driving, trucks still can save large amounts of premiums and improve fuel economy.

However, in the current legal framework, autonomous vehicles also attended. Lille believe that this technology can let the driver passenger side get a good night's sleep, to ease the fatigue of long distance driving. Of course, its ultimate goal is to eliminate the truck driver.

Lille said: "our test will also continue to develop in the future, Otto's truck will also turn on all types of highway, they adapt to the weather conditions and challenges of different modes of transport. ”

Uber自动驾驶卡车首次运货成功：运送5万罐啤酒跑完100英里 - IT资讯

据外媒报道，本月20日早晨，一辆拥有18轮的巨型拖挂卡车满载5万罐百威啤酒驶上了科泉市的道路。如果换在平常，这不过是繁忙早晨的普通一景，但今天这辆巨无霸不同，因为它用上了自动驾驶技术。同时，这也是自动驾驶卡车首次上路运送货物。

这辆沃尔沃的大型拖挂车装满了摄像头和传感器，它是Otto公司五辆测试车中的一员，今年8月这家新创公司刚被Uber收购。从科林斯堡的称重站出发后，这个大家伙在没有任何人力介入的情况下跑了100英里。

“本周，科泉城就有人能喝上自动驾驶卡车运送的百威啤酒（啤酒上还专门标明了由自动驾驶车辆运送）了，”Anheuser-Busch公司物流战略总监塞穆波特说道。“这可真够酷的。”

Otto公司联合创始人里尔表示，科罗拉多运输部的官员参与了路程规划并监督了自动驾驶的整个流程。同时，在拖挂车行驶时，一直有科罗拉多的巡逻队跟随。测试全程，拖挂车的平均时速达到55英里/小时（约合88千米/小时）。里尔表示，就连巡逻队都认为这样的巨无霸能安全跑完全程是个奇迹。

Otto今年1月才正式成立，起初它们只有40位雇员，不过这些人都是来自苹果、谷歌和特斯拉等公司的技术大牛，他们的目标是改变现有的卡车运输模式，让自动驾驶替代辛苦的卡车司机。而上面所提到的里尔，在创办Otto前是谷歌地图部门的负责人。

在谈到新东家Uber时，里尔表示卡兰尼克对这次测试非常兴奋，但他并不会插手Otto的工作，Otto的研发团队依然拥有充足的自主权。

与谷歌不同，Otto并不会自行设计卡车，它们只是为现有的车型加装自动驾驶套件。这套自动驾驶套件包括两颗负责道路偏离预警的摄像头，一颗负责扫描3D环境的激光雷达，两颗负责探测障碍物和车辆的前置雷达传感器和一个GPS传感器。为了确保万无一失，在测试前Otto在这条线路上跑了25次以便精确的规划测试线路。

里尔表示它们的终极目标是让卡车变得更加安全。“94%的事故都是人为因素造成的。”里尔说道。有了自动驾驶，卡车还能省下大笔保险费并提高燃油经济性。

不过，在如今的法律框架下，自动驾驶车辆中还需有人值守。里尔认为该技术能让司机在副驾驶睡个好觉，以减轻长途驾驶的疲劳。当然，其最终目标还是要淘汰卡车驾驶员。

里尔表示：“未来我们的测试还将继续深入，Otto的卡车还将开上各种类型的高速公路，它们会适应各种天气情况并挑战不同的交通模式。”