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Torc announced two major partnerships in 2018. The company will work with Bordrin Motor Corporation to help the Chinese electric car manufacturer develop its line of self-driving vehicles. [23] Torc also announced a partnership with Transdev to deploy fully autonomous electric shuttles in France. [24]
Operational design domain (ODD) is a term for a particular operating context for an automated system, often used in the field of autonomous vehicles. The context is defined by a set of conditions, including environmental, geographical, time of day, and other conditions. For vehicles, traffic and roadway characteristics are included.
Transdev, formerly Veolia Transdev, is a France-based international private-sector company which operates public transport. [3] It has operations in 17 countries and territories as of November 2020.
The concept for autonomous vehicles has been applied for commercial uses, such as autonomous or nearly autonomous trucks. Companies such as Suncor Energy , a Canadian energy company, and Rio Tinto Group were among the first to replace human-operated trucks with driverless commercial trucks run by computers. [ 120 ]
Transdev merged with Veolia Transport to form Veolia Transport in March 2011. However, RATP owned 25.6% stake of Transdev. As part of its withdrawal from Transdev's capital, its stake would be exchanged for some of Transdev's operations, for a total value equal to that of its holdings. [21] Some of the operations transferred were:
Commercial vehicle operations (CVO) is an application of intelligent transportation systems for trucks. It would allow trucks and buses to travel without having to stop for weight, credential, and safety checks, by using highway sensors to check them automatically as they are driven at prevailing speeds.
Autonomous logistics describes systems that provide unmanned, autonomous transfer of equipment, baggage, people, information or resources from point-to-point with minimal human intervention. Autonomous logistics is a new area being researched and currently there are few papers on the topic, with even fewer systems developed or deployed.
In mid-June, Tim Cook in an interview with Bloomberg TV said Apple was "focusing on autonomous systems" but not necessarily leading to an actual Apple car product, leaving speculation about Apple's role in the convergence of three disruptive "vectors of change": autonomous systems, electric vehicles and ride-sharing services. [60]