DTNA, ACM Announce Collaboration
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Daimler Trucks North America announced a three-year, $3 million, first-of-its-kind partnership with the American Center for Mobility that will allow customers to experience DTNA’s in-vehicle technology at test sites on ACM’s 500-acre campus in suburban Detroit.
ACM is a collaborative effort by government, industry and academic organizations to accelerate the mobility industry through research, standards development and educational programming, according to Portland, Ore.-based DTNA.
The partnership agreement between DTNA and ACM represents the first collaboration by ACM with a manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles and formalizes a long-standing relationship between ACM and DTNA, whose Detroit brand has used the center for multiple years to demonstrate its technologies for customers and distributors.
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“The advanced technologies offered in our trucks have the potential to save lives and reduce operating costs, making demonstration of those technologies at the ACM’s facility a perfect complement to their mission of accelerating mobility development across transportation segments,” David Carson, senior vice president of sales for DTNA, said in a release.
In addition to ACM’s test environments, including a 2.5-mile highway experience that accommodates Class 8 trucks at high speeds, DTNA said its financial support and extensive knowledge of work truck operations facilitated the creation of a new off-road course within the ACM test center.
“ACM’s partnership with DTNA illustrates how our shared-use facility can be used to showcase products to customers,” said Reuben Sarkar, CEO of ACM. “Customers can see and experience products firsthand in purpose-built driving environments. ACM is not just a test facility for validating technologies; we are also a product showcase venue.” — Transport Topics
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