Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 458

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 458
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 intensified as e‑commerce growth and rising consumer expectations place pressure on logistics networks to expand freight capacity while improving cost efficiency, safety, and environmental performance.

Autonomous Technology is Positioned to Unlock Value for the Industry

Society of Automotive Engineers (“SAE”) International Standard J3016 (“SAE J3016”) is a technical taxonomy that is widely referenced by regulators and policymakers, including in U.S. Department of Transportation and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”) publications and by various state and national authorities, but does not have the force of law. However, both the federal government and numerous states use the SAE levels to define terms such as “automated driving system” or to distinguish between driver-support (Levels 1–2) and automated-driving (Levels 3–5) features in statutes or regulations that govern testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles. SAE J3016 defines six levels of driving automation, from Level 0 (no driving automation) to Level 5 (full driving automation). In summary: Level 0 involves no driving automation and the human driver performs the entire dynamic driving task; Level 1 (“driver assistance”) automates either

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lateral or longitudinal control, with the human driver responsible for the remainder of the driving task; Level 2 (“partial driving automation”) automates both lateral and longitudinal control, with the human driver still responsible for monitoring the environment and performing object and event detection and response; Level 3 (“conditional driving automation”) allows an automated driving system (“ADS”) to perform the entire dynamic driving task within a defined operational design domain (“ODD”), but with the expectation that a human driver will respond to a request to intervene; Level 4 (“high driving automation”) allows the ADS to perform the entire dynamic driving task within its ODD without any expectation that a user will respond to a request to intervene; and Level 5 (“full driving automation”) refers to automated performance of the entire dynamic driving task in all on-road conditions.

SAE Level 4 (“L4”) encompasses operations in which an ADS performs the entire dynamic driving task, on a sustained basis, within a defined ODD (for example, specific highway freight corridors, hub-to-hub routes, or geo-fenced urban or campus zones), without any expectation of human intervention if the system remains within its ODD. In practice, L4 deployments today are limited to tightly defined geographic areas, times of day, weather conditions, and/or use cases (such as robotax