David's Blog

According to the article, “Drone truck startup Einride unveils new driverless vehicles for autonomous freight hauling” written by Hawkins (2020), a Swedish truck company, Einride, has produced a fleet of vehicles that aims to deliver goods in bulk autonomously. The company has been producing appealing and unique vehicle models since 2016 such as “Cab-less pods” for a German logistics company as well as the “T-log” for transporting large amounts of huge tree logs in 2017. The new “Autonomous Electric Transport (AET)” vehicles have a minimalist, sleek design and are similar to its predecessors of being “cab-less”. Hawkins also mentions there are different versions of AETs with each type designed to “suit different operational domains or conditions”. Einride also does regular testing on the vehicles to ensure it can operate smoothly. The article also shares the software that they are using for “completely driverless driving”. The company claims that the new AET would reduce transporta...

At the start of this course, I set myself 2 goals to achieve or work towards. Now that the course has its last lesson ended 2 days ago, I believe that I have achieved one of them, and am still working towards the other.  The first goal was to overcome my weakness of speaking in front of a large audience. This fear or struggle i faced was due to the thoughts of getting judged or laughed at by them. This feeling was also amplified due to my nature of being an introvert where I tend to overthink and imagine the worst. In this module, there were multiple opportunities for myself to practice speaking to an audience, this could be in the form of a small group of 5 or half the class. I am very grateful for this structure of the classes as these opportunities allowed me to mentally prepare myself with the contents and also learnt how to give a proper presentation with the large amounts of feedback from the audience and professor after each presentation. With a small presentations occurring...