![[Valid Atom 1.0]](valid-atom.png "Validate my Atom 1.0 feed")
SCANIA's News * Sweden: Autonomous trucks
* Stockholm - Scania plans autonomous work truck test
-- Scania and researchers of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm will be looking at how the self-driving dump trucks collaborate to safely handle obstacles on the road and carry out tasks like picking up and unloading gravel... It’s designed to get the autonomous trucks ready before testing the vehicles at a Swedish mining site in the fall...
... Scania hopes the tests will allow for the deployment of its self-driving trucks in mining operations within a year or two. The company believes mines will be the first environment where driverless trucks regularly operate... The mining industry relies on large and expensive construction-type vehicles to move gravel and debris. Autonomous work trucks would give the industry more flexibility to use varied types of vehicles, more tailored to specific industrial needs, according to Scania... Autonomous trucks also require new information every 50 milliseconds to make the right decisions about steering, accelerating and braking, Bo Wahlberg, the lead researcher for the project said... The upcoming tests will include a fifth generation wireless communication system known as 5G that will allow Scania’s self-driving vehicles to work together...
Södertälje, Stockholm, Sweden - Trucks (USA), by Carina Ockedahl - April 19, 2016
Labels: autonomous trucks, truckmakers news Sweden
posted by Unknown @ 7:41 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home