Automating Horizontal Transport: Learnings and Insights from Over One Year of Live Operations with Human-Assisted Autonomy

After more than a year of successful cooperation in the terminal and FERNRIDE-enabled autonomous terminal tractors being a part of daily live operations and doing productive moves, it is time to share the insights and learnings from this unique deployment.

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Before the 1950s, shipping was a chaotic ballet of barrels, crates, and sacks, each piece of cargo loaded individually onto ships. Then came Malcolm McLean, a trucking entrepreneur with a vision for efficiency.

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Autonomous vehicles, such as terminal tractors, are increasingly being utilized within container terminals for horizontal transportation to improve efficiency and safety. Autonomous, electric vehicles offer the potential for 24/7 operation, reduced manual labor, and optimized driving patterns.

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FERNRIDE Moves Towards Series Production with Release of Gen 4 Vehicle Kit

Germany-based autonomous trucking innovator FERNRIDE announces their next generation autonomous vehicle kit. FERNRIDE’s Vehicle Kit is designed to endure extreme conditions like sub-zero temperatures, ice and blizzards in Estonia, as well as the arid climate and...

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Human-Assisted Autonomy Is the Only Path to Scalable and Reliable Logistics Automation Today. Here Is Why.

I am not here to steer controversy, but let me get straight to the point: human-assisted autonomy is the only path to scalable and reliable logistics automation today. Especially, in the AV space we are used to the moonshot approach: it’s all in or nothing; either full autonomy or none at all...

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The Road to Industrialisation of Autonomous Trucking in Logistic Yards: Safety and High Product Performance Are Key.

When it comes to autonomous vehicles, it is a no-brainer that one of the first questions that comes to mind is “How safe is this technology?”. It pushes the boundaries of human innovation and prompts us to create new frameworks and approaches to how we think about safety. In this article we share a glimpse...

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Interview with Jean-Michael Georg: How Fernride is driving logistics automation

Driving logistics automation: Our CTO Jean-Michael Georg explains for Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung how we are countering the driver shortage with automated logistics through teleoperation and how our technology works.

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Whitepaper: Accelerate Automated Driving

This whitepaper discusses how teleoperation technology can help and accelerate the deployment of automated vehicles ...

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Driverless trucks already today through AI + remote control

The Munich-based startup has developed a cloud-based platform that can anticipate autonomous driving or replace it in the event of technical problems....