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At its fourth annual Tech Day in Taiwan today, Hon Hai (aka Foxconn) announced it will use Nvidia Drive Hyperion 9 for the manufacture of highly automated and autonomous EVs and will use Nvidia AI to help accelerate smart manufacturing.

The company’s first battery-electric long-haul truck advances the Mercedes-Benz Trucks vision of accident-free driving with safety assistance systems that go beyond the legal requirements in many areas using a new electronics platform with sensor fusion that merges radar and camera data.

The auto supplier’s new mobility efforts get a boost from a proof-of-concept collaboration with the fast-growing chain that will include multiple last-mile delivery platform options, adding to its experience from other autonomous delivery robot projects with Brooklyn Pizza and Cartken.

It is applying its in-house vehicle, software, and autonomous driving hardware to a collaboration with UPS on an autonomous electric cargo vehicle pilot program in the UK and with the European Institute for Innovation and Technology to test driverless public transport in Europe and Milton Keynes.

Forecasters still see long-term adoption in certain segments, with mobility-as-a-service and robotaxis expected to lead the transition to an autonomous vehicle future, while broad deployments of Level 2+ and Level 3 automated driving systems will reach at least 31% of new vehicle sales globally by 2035.

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The supplier’s system, which learns the driving route and performs parking using ultrasonic and surround view monitor cameras, is an intermediary technology on the competitive path to unmanned autonomous parking.

The companies partnership will deliver chicken wings, breakfast sausage, hot dogs and more in Arkansas.

According to James Jeffs, Senior Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, the rate of autonomous technology improvement demonstrates the potential for them to far exceed human levels of safety in the future.