Self-driving truck testing has proliferated across the sun-speckled southern U.S., but few automated driving developers have ventured into more treacherous weather conditions.
Over the past winter, Embark Trucks changed that.
The company sought out snow while testing its autonomous big rigs on a roundabout 60-mile stretch of public roads connecting the Montana towns of Clinton, Wye and Missoula. Starting in February, the trucks drove approximately 3,500 miles to test Embark's proprietary mapping technology and collect real-world data.