00:00Hello, I'm Matt Sullivan. I'm the International Markets Group Engineering Director and I'm here today
00:05handing over the fantastic keys to an Autonomous Vehicles in Rural, Remote and Regional Australia project.
00:12This is an opportunity for Ford Motor Company to participate in taking autonomous vehicle technologies
00:19from urban environments into rural settings.
00:22One of the use cases that came up very quickly in our discussion with a farmer
00:27was to be able to monitor and survey areas when they are bushfire prone and usually it's done at night
00:35so it takes a huge toll on the workforce to just monitor the environment and the day after to have
00:42a playwright on the field.
00:43We were going out and visiting a lot of customers. There was a huge opportunity for autonomous vehicles in some
00:50of their environments
00:51particularly some of the high risk, you know, you talk about fire fighting, you talk about some of the farmers
00:58but it was really useful and with Ranger being such a tech-savvy platform
01:03going the next step to become an autonomous vehicle was very easy.
01:07Swinburne is part of this project and we are delighted to work and contribute towards sensor fusion
01:15and development of autonomy pack. We are really excited about this project.
01:21We are not only delivering research paper, we are delivering so that people can benefit of the improvement in the
01:28advent.
01:29And this is through collaboration with industry.
01:32This is the next evolution for our vehicles to be able to go from autonomy with Blue Cruise in an
01:41urban environment
01:42out into a rural community and take us to the next level where there are undefined roads, unsealed activities and
01:51multi-terrain environments.
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