Torc Robotics autonomous truck delivers a safe, impressive and mostly boring ride
Summary
This would approximate to 1.4 million miles driven a day,” said Klara Oberhollenzer, Torc’s director of product management, virtual driver mission control, maintenance & care. The Daimler Truck subsidiary gave media a chance this week in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to experience its self-driving technology in a Freightliner Cascadia and true to design, it was mostly boring. “We think thats really important as much as you see the truck going down the road, all the other aspects of plugging into a freight network, or more elevated jobs of what a dispatcher or driver manager might do today are captured at mission control and a lot of other cool features too,” Torc’s Chief Strategy Officer Andrew Culhane told reporters before the test drives. Cutting edge technologies doggedly analyze and respond to a long list of variables on the open road all while being overseen by razor sharp engineers driven to make long-haul trucking safer, more environmentally friendly and more profitable. Busy traffic amid the popular freight corridors of I-40 and I-25, along with some challenging external factors like winter snowfall, rainy summer monsoons and occasional crosswinds, make the area ideal for testing.