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TRUCKS WITHOUT TRUCKERS on ROADS * Japan
* JARI experiments with autonomous trucks for standard road use
(Photo: The Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) will be experimenting on driverless trucks to look into the possibilities of their industrial, practical, and safe use on the road)Tokyo,Japan -Yomiuri News, by Christian Crisostomo/VR Zone -March 1 2013: -- The Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) recently announced this week that they will be experimenting with autonomous trucks to see whether they can practically put a fleet of such vehicles on the high road. The experiment will be conducted on a test course in Tsukuba City, at the Ibaraki Prefecture. They will build a test course where the driverless vehicles would run the entire course and cover about 3 to 2 kilometers in a single lap... Each of the trucks will be using standard "auto road sensing" technology, such as laser/light sensors and cameras, to aid the onboard computers in keeping the trucks' course straight, protecting it from possible obstacles, as well as preventing damage and accidents from occurring. All data would of course be collected by JARI for further analysis... Application of autonomous systems on larger vehicles like trucks usually aim or concentrate on rough industrial areas like mines, or on any other area that may be perilous for human workers. This makes JARI's experiment on driverless trucks considerably different, though fundamentally the goal of improved safety still stays the same... Some of the experiments that would be conducted in the project include deftly running the autonomous vehicles at a speed of 80 km/h, and making them coordinately run together within the course at 4 meters apart each other...
* Japan - Toyota to test EV trucks for cool deliveries
Tokyo,Japan -The Yomiuri Shimbun -Mar. 4, 2013: -- Toyota Motor Corp. and two other vehicle-related companies plan to test the use of electric trucks for pickup and delivery service in Tokyo from mid-March... Toyota, Hino Motors, Ltd. and Yamato Transport Co. plan to use two small electric trucks produced by Hino Motors for pickup and delivery service of cold and frozen products in designated areas of Tokyo for about a year... The 1-ton duty trucks are designed to run for about 100 kilometers on a single charge. However, as the cargo bay of each truck has been converted into a refrigerator with an air conditioner that draws power from the battery, the actual mileage is expected to be 25-30 kilometers... As electric trucks can operate without emitting carbon dioxide or producing loud sounds, the three companies plan to study the feasibility of using them for making frequent deliveries in a limited area... The experiment will be conducted in some areas in Itabashi Ward, as well as Machida...
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