Autonomous Vehicles from Pony.ai: Safe and Reliable with Multi-Sensor Technology
Pony.ai is one of the world’s leading companies in the development of autonomous vehicles and has set itself the goal of making the mobility of the future safer and more efficient. The company offers a wide range of autonomous vehicle solutions including Robotaxis, Robotrucks and personally-owned vehicles. By Sigrid Riewe-Scholz
With millions of miles covered in autonomous road tests under complex conditions, Pony.ai has created a solid basis to provide safe and reliable technologies for autonomous driving worldwide. This extensive experience means that the company can provide autonomous driving systems on a large scale and ensure the highest standards of safety and reliability.
The technological heart of Pony.ai’s autonomous vehicles is a precise multi-sensor fusion (MSF) approach which combines various types of sensors – including cameras, radar and LiDAR – to ensure a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the vehicle environment. MSF makes it possible to determine the precise location of vehicles down to the exact centimetre and also comprehensively capture the environment. It makes sure that obstacles and other road users can be recognized with precision and safely avoided.
Pony.ai has tested its autonomous vehicles in various geographical regions, in particular in the USA and China, to adapt the systems to different driving environments and conditions. Developing and validating autonomous vehicles in such diverse traffic conditions greatly enhances the reliability and safety of the systems. The findings from operations in both countries help identify edge-case traffic situations in good time and solve them in a targeted manner – a major step towards safely operating vehicles on public roads.
A further feature of Pony.ai’s autonomous vehicles is the company’s marked safety awareness. Intensive tests and precise, detail-oriented development work are standard at Pony.ai. The company collaborates with leading car and component manufacturers to ensure that all systems meet the highest safety requirements. This rigorous approach forms the basis of the technology and helps to sustainably strengthen confidence in autonomous mobility.
In order to establish its innovative vehicle technology on the European Markt, too, Pony.ai has signed a letter of intent with the government of Luxembourg. This partnership is to advance research, development, and the use of autonomous vehicles in Europe and help Pony.ai build up a regional centre for autonomous mobility in Luxembourg.