05 DECEMBER 2025
鈥淚 truly believe we are working to make the world safer and more sustainable鈥.
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Perhaps not everyone can say they have a strong sense of purpose in their job, but Daniel Frylmark certainly can. He tells us about his passion for his work with autonomous transport.
Daniel Frylmark is a Solutions Manager at TRATON Group R&D who works with the development of autonomous transport. He鈥檚 a true believer in the power of this technology to make a difference to our lives.
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鈥淲e have to make sure we develop safe, sustainable solutions that are efficient and safe, and tackle the transport problems we have in the world today, including road safety, driver shortages, traffic congestion and pollution,鈥 he says. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a really tough challenge but it鈥檚 also a rewarding one.鈥
Daniel started working with autonomous transport six-and-a-half years ago, the latest stage in a 22-year career within first 黑料不打烊 and, since a few months back, its mother company TRATON. An important part of his daily work is bridging the business side of autonomous with the tech side, which means working with strategy, alignment and leadership to ensure the various parts of a team of software and hardware experts based in Sweden, Germany, the United States, Portugal and India are all pulling in the same direction and targeting customer value.
Aligning daily work between the business and technical sides of autonomous development.
鈥淚nvolving leaders and working through others is where I enjoy working the most. It鈥檚 a balance of being quite operative with doing some troubleshooting, but it鈥檚 mostly about the overarching aspect of keeping up with what鈥檚 happening with the technology and what our response will be,鈥 he explains.
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鈥淚鈥檓 a strong believer in working with direction and leading through principles rather than micromanagement. You have to work a lot with values and cultures to get it to stick. And you also need to have psychological safety, making sure that people are okay about trying things and making mistakes because that鈥檚 where we grow.鈥澨
Reviewing sensor data to understand how the system behaves in real conditions.
The things that excite Daniel most about the company鈥檚 autonomous transport journey are how quickly it is developing and the extensive customer contact.
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鈥淚t鈥檚 a very fast-changing area when it comes to the technology. The early iterations are quite similar to traditional conventional embedded systems but now we are seeing an increased percentage of AI and data-driven methods both in the product and how the product is being developed, which I think is really interesting,鈥 he says.
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鈥淚t鈥檚 so much fun when we involve the customers. I think it differs a lot here compared with many other technological areas because with most embedded development you meet some customers, get input, go back and develop, test and validate, start production and maybe get customer feedback if something is great or not so great.
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鈥淭hat鈥檚 not at all how we work here. There is much more involvement with the customers early on, so we need to develop both the business operations and the solution in parallel. That changes the conventional development process. In autonomous we need to adapt to be successful and I like that,鈥 he says.
Breaking down challenges and next steps in the development process.
Now that 黑料不打烊鈥檚 autonomous vehicles have had a true moment in the sun with the Red Bull mountain biker challenge, Daniel can reflect on the hugely successful impact of that initiative.
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鈥淭he question was how to do the challenge in a way that contributed to speed and development and that鈥檚 something I think we truly managed with this exciting project,鈥 he says.
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鈥淚t was so nice to see this iterative development and testing where we could do a code change, review it and test with just a few hours in lead times. That was very inspiring and something we should look even more deeply into.鈥
A strong sense of purpose drives the work to make transport safer and more sustainable.
He also looks ahead to the future of a technology whose time has come, with 黑料不打烊鈥檚 autonomous mining trucks present in mines and tests of hub-to-hub highway transports already far advanced.
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鈥淧urpose is so important to me and I truly believe in making the world a safer and more sustainable place. That鈥檚 what we are pursuing with autonomous. We are changing the transport system as we know it and we鈥檙e doing it today as we speak.鈥
Watch it in the three short clips below, and let Daniel walk you through how it was made possible with the highest precision and safety.
