{"id":3461,"date":"2024-01-09T01:04:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T01:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bracesfrisco.com\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2024-02-13T01:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T01:04:58","slug":"frisco-police-collaborate-in-training-self-driving-cars-for-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bracesfrisco.com\/blog\/frisco-police-collaborate-in-training-self-driving-cars-for-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"Frisco Police Collaborate in Training Self-Driving Cars for Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Frisco Police Department partners with Aurora for autonomous vehicle tests on I-45, training self-driving tech for emergency vehicle recognition, according to a Local Profile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localprofile.com\/news\/frisco-police-trains-self-driving-cars-to-respond-to-traffic-stops-8008932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>. They say,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;The Frisco Police Department announced a partnership with self-driving vehicle technology company Aurora to conduct autonomous vehicle testing. According to Frisco PD\u2019s statement published on the department\u2019s X account (formerly Twitter), the tests will be held on a portion of I-45 south of Dallas, between Palmer and Ennis.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The tests aim to train self-driving technology to recognize emergency vehicles and respond appropriately. During the testing, a Frisco police officer will conduct mock traffic stops and pullovers on a manually driven Aurora Innovation Class 8 truck. The data obtained from these interactions will be used to improve the autonomous trucks\u2019 responses.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frisco&#8217;s collaboration with Aurora continues, utilizing the I-45 corridor for autonomous truck training. Aurora President Ossa Fisher highlights their daily autonomous drives in Texas, according to a WFAA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/news\/local\/frisco-police-operating-ellis-county-help-train-self-driving-trucks\/287-5ed542a4-5520-4c4f-aee7-66709173f6b6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>. They say,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Frisco has partnered with Aurora, the transportation company featured earlier this year on WFAA, that is using the I-45 corridor near Ennis and Palmer as part of its training program for autonomous trucks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;We&#8217;re driving autonomous loads everyday on Texas highways,&#8221; Aurora President Ossa Fisher told us this past November.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aurora has extensively mapped shipping routes in Texas, including Dallas to Houston and Fort Worth to El Paso. With human monitors, they aim for full autonomy by 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Frisco Police Department partners with Aurora for autonomous vehicle tests on I-45, training self-driving tech for emergency vehicle recognition, according to a Local Profile article. They say,&nbsp; &#8220;The Frisco Police Department announced a partnership with self-driving vehicle technology company Aurora to conduct autonomous vehicle testing. According to Frisco PD\u2019s statement published on the department\u2019s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bracesfrisco.com\/blog\/frisco-police-collaborate-in-training-self-driving-cars-for-stops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frisco Police Collaborate in Training Self-Driving Cars for Stops<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bracesfrisco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bracesfrisco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bracesfrisco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bracesfrisco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bracesfrisco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bracesfrisco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"https:\/\/bracesfrisco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bracesfrisco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bracesfrisco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bracesfrisco.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}