* Australia - Safety savings fuel push for driverless trucks
-- After decades checking their rearview mirrors for the threat from rail and air transport truckers around the world are facing their lates trival head-on: driverless trucks... In Australia, the world's most truck-dependent nation mining giants such as Rio Tinto, are using remote controlled lorries to shift iron ore around massive mining pits... Now the country's road transport companies are modernising fleets to ensure that when their industry goes autonomous as early as the end of the decade they are ready... Toll owned by Japan Post Holdings Co Ltd has already kitted out many of its 3000 vehicles with semi-autonomous gadgetry like lane-change sensors and cruise control... It will join other firms in April to watch a driverless truck trial in the Netherlands which wants autonomous road trains sending cargo from Rotterdam Europe's biggest port throughout the continent by 2019... Singapore plans to trial autonomous trucks while Canadian oil producer Suncor Energy Inchas ordered a fleet of trucks equipped to go driverless... The U.S. state of Nevada last year approved Mercedes-Benzmaker Daimler AG to undertake trials of itsself-driving trucks on public roads following tests in Germany... Freight companies must also wait for resolution on long-standing legal quirks like a law in Australia requiring at least one hand on the steering wheel and a European law requiring trucks to travel at least three seconds apart - toolong to make platooning effective... Regulations on liability and roaduser safety will also berequired to clarify where responsibility lies if things gowrong... Fears that thousands of drivers will lose their jobs have been raised but the industry has downplayed such concerns as many countries struggle to fill trucking jobs... In Australia freight demand is forecast to jump 80 percent by 2031 while the number of drivers is expected to stall according industry estimates...
(Photo: Driverless trucks are already here: Komatsu robotic trucks) -- Sudney, NSW, Australia - MENAFN/The Peninsula/Reuters, by Byron Kaye and Toby Sterling (South Africa) - 13 March 2016Labels: driverless trucks
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