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Feb 26, 2015

FUTURE TRUCKS * Europe: Daimler's & Volvo's ones

* Germany - Daimler AG unveiled a prototype driverless truck
-- Introduced at last year’s International Commercial Vehicles show in Hannover, Germany, this futurist commercial vehicle come with a sleek, extended tractor front and an array of LED lights that replace traditional headlights. Daimler claims it's Future Truck 2025 and could be the next generation in trucking – reducing fuel consumption and related emissions while improving safety... The big rig bristles with Highway Pilot system, enabled by a collection of cameras and radar sensors, while continuously transmitting its position to other drivers and traffic control centers. For times when it has a driver behind the wheel, the truck also has a Blind Spot Assist feature to help with lane changing and to alert drivers about other vehicles and stationary objects on the road... From a technology standpoint, anyway, driverless trucks may not be far off: Collision-Avoidance systems to help stabilize trucks when they are at risk of rolling over – and to warn drivers when they are drifting out of their lanes... For trucks already on the road, manufacturers are working to reduce idling time, which can eat up half a truck’s operational time and 8% of its fuel... These advances – particularly increased automation – could result in a major improvement in road safety. Sleepy truck drivers, bad brakes and the sheer size of tractor trailers contribute to thousands of deaths per year – 3,602 in 2013 – from truck crashes on US roadways, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety... That’s down from 3,992 deaths in truck-related crashes in 1997 and more than 4,000 in 1979. According to Eric Teoh, a senior statistician at the IIHS, some of that reduction may be due to the growing use of speed limiting devices, which, he said, may become federally mandated in the near future...


* Sweden / UK  - Volvo Trucks ‘Truck of the Future 2050 Design Competition’ Winners

-- All three category winners, plus runners-up and a good number of entrants, to the Volvo Trucks’ ‘Truck of the Future 2050 Design Competition’ recently enjoyed a visit to Volvo Group UK headquarters at Warwick... As announced in December, the winners are Luo Tong Sim (Under 11 years), Barry Llewellyn (11 to 18 years), who is from Dublin, and Rhys Guy Llewellyn (Over 18 years). The three category winners, together with the two runners-up, George Goodfellow and Robert Hunt, have been invited to Gothenburg to meet the Volvo Trucks Design Team... Most of the entrants produced their designs during the 2014 summer holidays. Many reported that they had spent several weeks producing preliminary sketches and notes about their favoured design concepts... A number of designs featured ‘autonomous’, ‘driver-less’ trucks. Alternative fuels and kinetic energy recycling also found favour. Most opted to design long-haul trucks, but Robert Hunt (runner-up, over 18 years category), produced designs for a distribution truck he dubbed FE-2050, after the Volvo FE range of rigid vehicles... (Photo: Rhys Guy Llewellyn - over 18 category winner 1 day ago Trucks) - Warwick,EN,UK -UKHAULIER -25th February 2015

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