Volvo garbage trucks have extremely unique self-driving ability

Volvo announced that it will test an auto-drive garbage truck next month. Their subsidiary, Volvo Trucks, has joined hands with a Swedish waste management company, Renova, to create a prototype of this car.

Even though you think being a sanitation worker may not be among the most dangerous jobs in the world, the garbage man is likely to die while on a higher mission than a police officer. close, according to the US Department of Labor statistics. The lower back injuries are very common, and of course, when you have to run dozens of kilometers behind a garbage truck, reefs, bruised knees and cracked hands are too common symptoms. Turn to them.

Smart garbage trucks always observe the surrounding space and will immediately stop if any obstacles suddenly appear on the road.

'Driving a heavy commercial vehicle in densely populated areas with narrow streets and traffic participants requires the driver to ensure absolute safety, even if the speed of the vehicle is very slow, only similar Only for pedestrians, ' said Carl Johan Almqvist, Volvo Trucks ' Director of Product Safety and Transportation. 'The smart garbage truck we are testing is always observing the surrounding space and will immediately stop if an obstacle suddenly appears on the road. At the same time, an automated system will help vehicle operators have a good vision and cover everything that is happening around the car ".

By going backward, the driver will always be close to the compressor, instead of constantly going back and forth.

Using LiDAR - the system used for laser aerial topographic mapping, and GPS global positioning to determine the direction and position adjustment, the vehicle can drive itself for more than an hour after approx. 60 minutes of learning and remembering the surroundings. After the trip ends, the driver will exit the truck and dump the garbage out as usual. The difference is only when the car will automatically reverse the reverse of the driver and continue to move to the next trash.

"By going backward, the driver will always be close to the compressor, instead of constantly going back and forth to keep the trash and trucks when moving , " said Hans Zachrisson, Renova's Planning Development Manager. said. "And when the driver does not need to climb out, climb into the car every time he cleans the garbage, the risk of occupational-related diseases such as bruised knees and joint pain is also significantly reduced."

Volvo self-driving garbage truck.

Unlike other automated devices and vehicles, this truck will not "steal" the jobs of previous workers, because it still needs the driver to control it to the neighborhood as well as to dump the garbage. . This is a new step to make it easier for workers to breathe, or at least until we invent a machine that can completely replace them.