Otto is an American independent technology company founded in January 2016 by Lior Ron and Anthony Levandowski.
The company is based in San Francisco and employees 90 people as of August 2016. The company is focusing on retrofit semi trucks with radar, cameras and laser sensors to make them capable of driving themselves. In August 2016, Otto was acquired by Uber transport network company. Lior Ron, one of the company's founders, has stated that Otto will have a self-propelled truck fleet on the road in early 2017.
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Otto was founded in January 2016, and is currently one of the new generation of automotive companies that are trying to create self-driving vehicles. The company was founded by Anthony Levandowski, who works on Google's self-driving car project, and Lior Ron, who leads the product on the Google Maps team. Claire Delaunay, who leads software development and Don Burnette, from Google's self-driving car team is also a co-founder. The team in August 2016 consists of 90 employees, with engineers from Google, Apple Inc., Tesla, Logitech, Stanford University, and elsewhere. The company's base is a garage in the San Francisco Southern Market neighborhood.
In August 2016 it was reported that Otto had been acquired by Uber, with an estimated valuation of $ 680 million. Otto must remain independent of Uber, according to Lior Ron. Anthony Levandowski will continue to lead Otto, and is responsible for Uber's own driving division.
Achievements
In October 2016, Otto's truck achieved the longest continuous journey by a semi-driverless and autonomous truck. It is a 132 mile route from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins in Colorado, USA. The truck travels autonomously without any major vehicle, teleoperation, or other human intervention.
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Technology
Otto did not build his own truck. Instead, companies make hardware that can be mounted on trucks at service centers or factories. The company's goal over the next few years is for the technology that will be used by truckers during long haul transport so that they can rest during the trip. This in turn reduces the number of hours it takes for the driver to complete a trip with the potential to drive continuously, and overcome the 11-hour legal restriction on manual driving. In August 2016, Otto has transformed five Volvo 780 semi-finals with self-driving technology, and tested them on interstate highways. They use similar technology to be developed by Google and Nissan, equipping trucks with radar, cameras, and lidar. Automated technology makes driving more efficient, and will allow truckers to sleep while the truck is driving alone. Levandowski has stated: "Our goal is to make a human riding truck possible, but with engine reliability."
Security
According to John Markoff of The New York Times, Otto made the conscious decision to automate trucks rather than passenger vehicles because, "nationally, trucks move 5.6 percent of all vehicle mileage and are responsible for 9, 5 percent of highway casualties. "The need to make driving trucks safer is one of the goals of the company.Rock has been quoted as saying:" We want to get the technology to the point where it's safe to let the driver rest and sleep in his cabin and we can drive for him, get out to get out. " Eventually trucks will be able to drive independently on highways along the 220,000 miles in the US, although in some states such as California there may be regulatory constraints.The company intends to collect security data to demonstrate the benefits of automated technology In an interview with Emily Chang from Bloomberg West, David Kirkpatrick, CEO of Techonomy Media, states that people are far more likely to use trucks with automatic driving than passenger vehicles because of the widespread perception that trucks are driven by dangerous by truckers.
Legal Charges
In February 2017, Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., filed a lawsuit against Uber, alleging that Anthony Levandowski "downloaded 9.7 GB of secret files and Waymo's very high trade secrets, including blueprints, design files and test documentation" before resign to find Otto.. In March 2017, US District Judge William Haskell Alsup referred the case to the federal prosecutor after Levandowski exercised the Fifth Amendment right against the allegations. In May 2017, Judge Alsup ordered that Levandowski refrain from working with Lidar Otto and required Uber to disclose his discussion of technology.
Clearpath Robotics filed a complaint in the Northern District of California on August 24, 2016 against Ottomotto LLC in connection with the OTTO brand. The action was dismissed with prejudice on February 1, 2017. Clearpath Robotics continues to operate the OTTO brand. In response, Clearpath issued a statement about the confusion. In May 2017, Uber officially retired the Otto brand as a result of the lawsuit with Clearpath Robotics Inc.
See also
- Starsky Robotics
References
External links
- Official site
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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