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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * Germany: Daimler´s
* Germany - Truck of the future aims to drive itself
Stuttgart,Germany -CNN, by Ben Brumfield(USA) -July 5, 2014: ... The prototype "Future Truck 2025" which Mercedes says is the first self-driven freight vehicle, it may seem illogical right now, but the hands-off idea is aimed at eliminating human error... Special cameras and multiple radar systems watch the road, the sides of the road, and cars and trucks behind the vehicle. Its computerized controls will also make it more fuel efficient, Mercedes boasts... Once the truck merges into traffic, it won't accelerate to clichéd Autobahn breakneck speeds. The system will throttle it to a meek 50 mph, Mercedes says... Many of the component parts to put a vehicle like this into production are already available in trucks on the market: Systems that help drivers keep their distance from other drivers, active braking assistance, guidance and mapping systems, and fine-tuned cruise control and tons of other hi-tech tchotchke...
If a puttering slowpoke pulls out in front of Future Truck 2025, it will slow down automatically to keep off of its bumper, but the 18-wheeler won't pass it by itself... That's when the driver will have to turn off the ball game, put down the iPad or lay away the knife and fork, then take the wheel... Mercedes says that the trucker will still be expected to be responsible for controlling the vehicle. But by then they won't be called that anymore. In 2025, they'll be promoted to "transport managers" ...
* Daimler Trucks: Cost cut plans put 2,000 jobs at risk
Frankfurt,Germany -Reuters/The Chicago Tribune, by Ilona Wissenbach/Edward Taylor and Keiron Henderson -July 2, 2014: -- Daimler management wants to cut costs further at its truck plants in Germany, an objective which could threaten around 2,000 jobs, labor representative and deputy supervisory board chairman Michael Brecht said on Wednesday... Daimler management has approached labor representatives about plans to achieve the cost savings at three plants in Gaggenau, Mannheim and Kassel by 2022, Brecht said in a statement... Overall, Daimler Trucks has 79,000 employees. Daimler Trucks aims to reach sales of more than 500,000 vehicles in 2015, and 700,000 units in 2020. The division seeks to record an average return on sales of 8 percent... To reach these goals, Daimler Trucks has been working on a cost and efficiency program to make 1.6 billion euros ($2.2 billion) in savings by end 2014...
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