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Truck Industry Plans to Introduce Semi-Automated Vehicles by 2023 Across Europe
May 11, 2017Truck manufacturers in Europe have revealed plans to introduce convoys of semi-automated trucks on European motorways before 2025. Besides setting out the timing, the ‘EU Roadmap for Truck Platooning’ also provides guidance to ...
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Audi Presents New Technologies for Piloted Driving and Car-to-X-Communication
Oct 26, 2016Audi is presenting new technologies for piloted driving and Car-to-X-communication at the German Federal Ministry of Transport, twelve months after the launch of the Digital Motorway Test Bed. The focus is on online variable message road ...
Tags: Audi, Piloted Driving
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Why Trucks Will Uncouple From Human Drivers Sooner Than You Think
Aug 8, 2016The driverless truck is no longer a fanciful idea that will materialise in some future world. The technology has advanced rapidly over recent years, and I believe that we’ll see these automated vehicles on our highways in the near ...
Tags: driverless truck, automated vehicles, weather-related delays
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Singapore Land Transport Authority Selects Delphi Automotive for Autonomous Vehicle on-Demand Program
Aug 4, 2016The Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) has selected Delphi Automotive as a strategic partner in implementing autonomous mobility concepts, through its technologies in advanced safety and automated software. Delphi will provide a ...
Tags: Autonomous Vehicle, LTA
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Daimler Autonomous Trucks Complete Cross Border Trip to Demonstrate Benefits of Platooning
Apr 11, 2016Three connected and autonomous Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks have completed a cross-border trip from Stuttgart to Rotterdam, to demonstrate that platooning helps in saving fuel and reducing harmful emissions. The move is aimed at ...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks, Platooning, Daimler Autonomous Trucks
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Chancellor Finds Budget For Driverless Lorry Trials
Mar 18, 2016The UK government has confirmed that it will start trialling driverless lorry technology in the UK. Earlier in the month the Department for Transport said that the UK was to lead the way in trialling "HGV platoons". Now the Chancellor ...
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Lockheed Martin Invests in Peloton Technology and Commercializing Truck Platooning
Sep 1, 2015Peloton Technology, a developer of vehicle systems that deliver advanced safety, fuel savings and analytics to trucking fleets, today announced an investment agreement with Lockheed Martin to accelerate Peloton’s development and ...
Tags: Lockheed Martin, Peloton Technology, Truck
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Volvo Trucks' Environmental Practices Call for Sustainable Development
Apr 1, 2015In recent years, environmental protection has become an important issue for the Chinese government and for Chinese citizens from all walks of life, rising to the same status as economic development. According to transport development and as ...
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Freedom Talks to Complain About How The Digital World Has Robbed Them Something or Other
May 5, 2014People are forever complaining about how the digital world has robbed them of something or other. Peace. Anonymity. Freedom itself. I just see possibilities. So I've been keen to follow a new kind of connection made possible by the ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
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Scania Will Lead a Esearch Project to Develop a New System
Dec 13, 2013Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania is set to lead a three-year European research project, COMPANION, to develop a new system for implementing truck platooning on roads. Introducing platooning on European roads can ...
Tags: Scania, vehicle, truck, platooning, COMPANION