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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * Germany: Daimler Trucks
* Vision of the future
(Photo: Daimler truck, inside view: The cab is more like a modern paperless office than the cab of a transport truck)Hanover,Germany -HDT Truckinginfo (USA), by Jim Park -September 22, 2014: -- Daimler Trucks rolled back the curtain a little further on the autonomous commercial vehicle... The truck, and the self-driving concept, is being developed as part of Daimler Trucks' "Shaping Future Transportation" initiative to conserve resources, reduce emissions and to ensure traffic safety through vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communications... Revealing the truck for the 2014 International Commercial Vehicle show (IAA) in Hanover -- Sven Ennerst, chief engineer of Daimler Trucks, told the press... The shape of the cab is quite a departure from the company's flagship Actros model, but the beauty of the truck goes well beyond skin deep... Bernhard referred to is the Highway Pilot system, which resembles the autopilot on an aircraft and further extends the truck's safety systems and helps it interact with other nearby vehicles as well as the roadway itself... It uses a combination of stereo cameras, long- and short-throw, and wide and narrow angle radar to see the world around it...
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