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Robotaxi pioneer Waymo drives in the future with Daimler Trucks
Martin Daum, head of Daimler trucks division, presents the electrical load of the Freightliner brand in front of the car. Waymo is considered a leader in the development of Autonomous driving. Now Google is doing-the sister with the truck manufacturer Daimler, which is also working on the technology. Photo: Axel Postinett/dpa
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Waymo is considered a leader in the development of Autonomous driving. Now Google is doing-the sister with the truck manufacturer Daimler, which is also working on the technology. The roles are clearly defined.
The Robotaxis known Google sister company Waymo wants to continue to let the trucks from the Daimler group by the United States roles.
Waymo and Daimler Trucks have agreed on a strategic partnership for so-called Level-4 systems, as you told on Tuesday. Level 4 is in the development of Autonomous driving is the second highest level. The partnership will help both companies to speed up progress, said Daimler Trucks CEO Martin Daum. They would be partners in the automotive industry, and remained at the same time, competitors in the Software.
Practically, this looks like Daimler provides a special variant of the US-load model of the car Freightliner Cascadia at Waymo. The Google-sister installed it then your “Waymo Driver”, so the technology for Autonomous Driving with Sensors, computers and Software to Daimler not have access will get it. “In the end we sell the Chassis to Waymo,” said Daum. What the US companies do with the cars, not going to, you know.
In the passenger Car segment of the “Waymo Driver has” millions of test miles on public roads on to the hump. In Phoenix in the U.S. state of Arizona, the company is allowed to are already transporting passengers without a safety driver. In addition, it is planning a freight service with self-propelled trucks and vans. When and to what extent, the trucks should come from the project with Daimler on the streets, wanted to say neither Daum nor Waymo-chief John Krafcik.
Daimler Trucks operates in parallel with its U.S. subsidiary Torc to a proprietary technology for self-driving trucks. These plans will change anything, said Daum. The partnership with Waymo serve the development of the special vehicle technology to advance, to enlarge the area of application on their own projects, and to reduce the costs. A more important but also more complex and expensive point of Autonomous vehicles is the fact that all the important systems like the steering or brake need to be present multiple times, and is secured.
Daum compared the project with the fuel cell partnership with Volvo. Also you work in an area and am otherwise in competition with each other. The times in which you could hope, in the case of large and important topics of the future all the competitors and to be at the end of alone on the market are over. “The Illusion we can forget about us,” said Daum. How far the Waymo technology of their own ahead of the rest, he did not want to rate.
