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The latest PAVE Europe White Paper (2025) makes this point clearly: “Autonomous vehicles reduce costs, increase efficiency, lower accident rates, and ease the environmental burden. Their benefits go far beyond technical aspects.”

Economy: Reducing Costs, Boosting Productivity

In commercial freight, cost per kilometer is a critical metric—and this is where autonomous systems create measurable advantages. Key drivers include:

• Compensating for labor shortages:
  According to PAVE, the shortage of professional drivers remains a central challenge across the transport sector. AVs help relieve that pressure.
• Reduced maintenance through mechatronic design:
  By eliminating traditional mechanical components—steering columns, pedals, hydraulic systems—autonomous vehicles based on Drive-by-Wire require significantly less maintenance.
• Improved energy efficiency:
  Reduced idling, optimized acceleration profiles, and predictive driving behavior result in lower energy consumption per trip.

Using the NX NextMotion platform from Arnold NextG, manufacturers can develop vehicles that are fully electronically controlled—modular, cabless, and highly scalable. This leads to lower build costs and enables new vehicle layouts that prioritize cargo volume and platform flexibility.

Environment: Fewer Emissions Through Smarter Fleet Operation

A significant share of urban CO₂ emissions originates from delivery traffic. Autonomous vehicles offer clear levers for targeted reduction:

• Intelligent routing based on real-time demand:
  Lower idle times and shorter empty return trips through data-driven route planning
• Lightweight vehicle design through system integration:
  Modular, mechanic-free architecture reduces vehicle mass, lowering overall energy demand
• Support for electrified vehicle platforms:
  The Drive-by-Wire approach is inherently compatible with electric and hybrid drivetrains—without requiring additional development effort

As confirmed in the PAVE White Paper: “AVs enable smarter use of infrastructure and can help reduce emissions and energy consumption.”

Safety: Built to Anticipate, Tolerate, and Prevent Failure

More than 90% of road accidents are caused by human error—fatigue, distraction, misjudgment. Autonomous systems are engineered to eliminate these risk factors and to provide a higher standard of safety:

• Multiredundant safety architecture
• Predictive control logic:
  Real-time situational analysis and fallback behavior ensure system stability even in degraded states.
• Cybersecurity by design:
  The NX NextMotion platform is certified in accordance with UNECE R155 and ISO 21434, ensuring end-to-end protection against manipulation, hacking, and external interference.

All these functions are delivered in modular form and can be flexibly integrated—whether in urban delivery vehicles or long-haul autonomous trucks.

Three Dimensions, One Goal – Technological Readiness for the Future

Autonomous vehicles are not just a response to cost pressure. They are a strategic enabler of safer, more sustainable, and economically robust transport infrastructure. Their impact is measurable across all dimensions of modern mobility. With the NX NextMotion platform, Arnold NextG provides the certified, fail-operational control technology that makes scalable, autonomous logistics possible—today.

Safe. Scalable. Proven. We control what moves.