An intelligent heavy truck fleet of five vehicles has completed 7 million kilometers of commercial autonomous driving at Yangshan Port in Shanghai.

Photo shows an autonomous driving truck fleet developed by Utopilot at Yangshan Port. [Photo/WeChat ID: shlgguanweihui]

Developed by Chinese autonomous driving startup Utopilot, the five trucks were put into use in November 2019.

With the help of 5G and L4 self-driving technology, the fleet can offer point-to-point delivery services between Yangshan Port, Donghai Bridge, and the Lin-gang collection and distribution center.

L4 autonomy means the vehicle can drive itself under most circumstances without a human driver.

Over the past four years, the intelligent vehicles have transported about 230,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of standard containers, further enhancing the throughput capacity of Yangshan Port, and promoting the rapid and large-scale application of unmanned commercial operations.

According to Utopilot, the company Youdao Zhitu will deploy another 200 intelligent heavy trucks to carry out all-weather and automated trucking.