Intel’s Mobileye subsidiary and autonomous vehicle delivery company Udelv will roll out no less than 35,000 fully-autonomous delivery vehicles by 2028. The vehicle in question is fittingly dubbed ‘The Transporter’ and will be capable of Level 4 self-driving and point-to-point operation. Each of the 35,000 units to be produced will fully integrate Mobileye’s autonomous system that includes 13 cameras, three long-range LiDARs, six short-range LiDARs, and six radars. Mobileye’s system also has technology from Israeli company EyeQ and utilize the Road Experience Management (REM) crowdsourcing program that uses real-time data to build a global 3D map.
Udelv has been testing autonomous delivery
vans throughout the United States for a number of years now, including in areas
such as Oklahoma City, Arizona, and California’s Bay Area. The Transporter will
be built from the ground-up and based on a modular electric platform that can
be tweaked to fit a variety of different vehicles. As it will be fully
autonomous, it will lack a cabin for a human driver and offer support for DC
fast charging. The company has confirmed that while the delivery vehicle will
be fully-autonomous, it will also have ultra-low-latency teleoperation
capabilities, allowing a remote operator to take control of it whenever
necessary.
