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SELF DRIVING TRUCKS * Europe: A Revolution
* Sweden - The "autonomous big trucks show"
(Video from Scania Group - Apr 1, 2016: Crossing the border to Denmark. Next week the truck platoon will reach its destination)
-- European truck makers are pushing for the adoption of fuel-saving platooning technology that allows several trucks to automatically drive closely to each other. As part of that push, several manufacturers are taking part in the platooning challenge with the aim of moving a step closer to allowing the fuel-saving technology on roads... It currently is not possible to use the technology on Europe’s roads because legislation differs among countries on what is a safe driving distance between trucks. For the platooning challenge, trucks have been given special permission to deploy wireless communication, thereby enabling them to halve distances to 0.5 seconds between vehicles... Volkswagen's truck division will spend about half a billion euros by the end of the decade to enhance digital features of heavy-goods vehicles as truck makers increase their focus on automation in road haulage... The Scania contingent in the 2016 European Truck Platooning Challenge reached Belgium on April 1 for a demonstration at a race track, near Brussels. Embarking from Scania’s head office in Sodertalje, the three-truck wirelessly connected Scania platoon has travelled through Sweden, Denmark and Germany before reaching Belgium, the company said in a statement... MAN, part of VW's trucks division, has said platooning could help reduce diesel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in road freight transport by as much as 10%... Three Volvo trucks started a platoon demonstration drive from Gothenburg, Sweden, to Rotterdam, Netherlands, on March 18, Volvo Group said...
Sodertalje, Sweden - Transport Topics - 5 April 2016
* Germany - Daimler has already a position with its self-driving tractor-trailers
-- German auto- and truck-maker Daimler said on Monday that three digitally connected and self-driving Mercedes-Benz trucks had begun a convoy drive from the German city of Stuttgart to Rotterdam, in the Netherlands... The demonstration is part of a European challenge to foster development of "platooning," the partial automation of convoys of tractor-trailers to save fuel, reduce emissions, and increase highway safety... But it also shows, in vivid detail, just how advanced Mercedes' self-driving technology is right now...
... In addition to its well-known Mercedes-Benz cars, Daimler also has a significant truck and bus business. It builds and sells heavy-duty trucks (think tractor-trailers) under the Mercedes-Benz, Western Star, and Freightliner brands; medium-duty Fuso trucks, and Setra and Thomas Built buses...
Stuttgart, Germany - The Motley Fool - Apr 4, 2016
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