USA - Volvo Trucks North America Inc (VTNA) of Greensboro, North Carolina, alongside automated vehicle software provider, Perceptive Automata and customer, Dependable Highway Express (DHE), has unveiled a collaborative innovation project designed to strengthen safety capabilities for the trucking industry through automation. This project utilises human intuition artificial intelligence, which ‘reads’ the intention and awareness of vulnerable road users such as pedestrians, cyclists and other motorists, to enhance the situational awareness of truck drivers.

Volvo Trucks says it recognises the critical need for improved safety for all road users, specifically to augment situational awareness and to anticipate better human behaviour while on the road. The company has developed a proof-of-concept together with Perceptive Automata and DHE, which was demonstrated successfully at DHE headquarters in Ontario, California recently. Attendees experienced Perceptive Automata’s artificial intelligence (AI) software on a Volvo VNR 300 regional-haul model.