The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and Embark Trucks Inc. have agreed to work together to share information to promote safety in highway work zones when automated vehicles are deployed. The shared data will support continued safe navigation of highway work zones by autonomous trucks. Using data collected from its operations, Embark will provide Arizona with feedback on mutually-defined areas of interest such as infrastructure, health, road design, and quality of publically available zone data.
Embark will also provide technical briefings to Arizona officials to contribute to awareness of developing AV technology. ADOT, in turn, will share open-source data on work zones that can contribute to safe navigation. Both companies will seek to share with other public sector stakeholders any relevant findings to facilitate the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles.
