Trucking

Test the long haul before you ever leave the yard.

Simulation as close to the real world as you can get.

Software augmented testing built for autonomous trucking.

Real-fidelity neural reconstructions and deterministic sensor simulation to test and validate heavy-duty autonomous trucks across every freight corridor, weather pattern, and traffic scenario you can’t afford to fail in.

Why simulation, for trucking specifically

Safe, reliable perception

Long-haul exposure scale. Trucking AV programs need coverage across hundreds of millions of miles, dozens of corridors, and every weather pattern between Laredo and Tacoma. Physical fleets can’t get there fast enough.

Class 8 stopping distances. Heavy-duty trucks at highway speed need the length of a football field to stop. Perception failures at 70 mph have no recovery margin.

Long-tail corridor conditions. Sun glare on I-40, weather coming over Donner Pass, a trailer cutting your blind spot at a freight terminal. None of this reproduces on a closed track.

Solution — Run perception, prediction, and planning stacks against thousands of variations of the highest-risk corridor and terminal scenarios, in deterministic, repeatable simulation.

Time and cost

Real-world testing of Class 8 AV trucks costs millions per pilot — every fleet mile is a logistical and safety expense.

Capturing diverse corridor data across geographies and weather conditions takes years of fleet operations.

Hours-of-service rules, freight schedules, and terminal access constraints cap how many test miles you can collect.

Solution — Turn a year of corridor coverage into a week of regression runs. Test more scenarios per dollar and ship safer, faster.

Scalability across corridors and configurations

Different truck cab platforms, sensor rigs, and trailer configurations require separate validation campaigns.

New corridors, weather conditions, and operational design domains mean new data collection and re-validation cycles.

Defensible AV trucking deployment requires repeatable, measurable evidence — not anecdotes from a single pilot.

Solution — Test perception across freight networks, sensor rigs, cab variants, and ODDs by updating configuration, not recapturing data.

PD Solutions

PD Replica + PD Sim for autonomous trucking pilots and validation programs.

Evaluate

Open-loop and closed-loop testing for trucking AV perception, prediction, and planning stacks. Nightly regression suites for highway perception, occluded merges, terminal operations, and weather transitions. Near-validation testing in real-world scanned freight corridors (PD Replica).

Analyze

Benchmark against custom corridor scenarios and sensor configurations. Evaluate perception against safety-critical interactions — long merges, occluded pedestrians at terminals, glare from polished trailers. Explore sensor placement, field-of-view, and multi-sensor fusion trade-offs for Class 8 cab platforms.

Train

Scaled data generation for object detection, segmentation, depth estimation, and motion prediction models. Generate datasets across infinite variations of corridor lighting, weather, and traffic. Simulate in real-world scanned freight corridors (PD Replica) for domain-specific training.

Benefits

Addressing trucking AV challenges

Accelerate development without scaling the physical fleet

Run thousands of simulated corridor miles in parallel — testing scenarios that would take a year of physical fleet operations. Validate perception changes before they deploy to truck cabs on real freight runs.

Scale across corridors, sensor rigs, and cab platforms

Change truck cab platforms, sensor configurations, or operational corridors through configuration. Expand from a single Texas pilot to a full hub-and-spoke network without retooling validation infrastructure.

Build trust in heavy-duty AV trucks

Demonstrate safety through exhaustive simulation across thousands of hours-of-service edge conditions, freight terminal interactions, and weather transitions. Build the evidence base regulators, freight customers, and insurance partners need to trust autonomous trucking.

Schedule a Demo

Walk us through your trucking AV program and we’ll show you how PD plugs into your validation pipeline.