As much as everyone is getting excited about Google ’s cute little autonomous car , ego - driving hand truck are the most obvious — and in all probability light — beneficiary of autonomous tech . To prove this , a “ platoon ” of link trucks from six stigma nail a 1,300 mile trip-up across Europe .
A dozen motortruck from various manufacturers were participating in the excitingly - namedEuropean Truck Platooning Challenge , a proof - of - concept for truck platooning . It ’s the idea that if you link truck with Wi - Fi , they can form a slopped convoy , using slipstreaming to save fuel , forbid access code , and make life leisurely for drivers .
Trucks go away from manufacturing HQs across Europe , and linked up to platoon together , eventually ending the journeying in Rotterdam . It ’s not just the first cross - border monstrance of motortruck platooning , but also an utilisation that involved unlike producer — all in all a resounding achiever .
Platooning is a whole lot easier than the amply - self-reliant vehicle that Google , Apple , and fundamentally everyone else are working on . To form a platoon , trucks just need to talk to each other and follow in a melodic line , rather than calculate a complex set of ever - chaging variables to navigate the route . In this particular instance , trucks were only platooning on highway , which lack most of the complexity that make city driving challenging .
While driverless car are definitely some age away , it ’s easy to see hand truck platooning — and possibly even route trains for rider cars — coming online much earlier . It ’s good news for CO2 emissions ( and anyone effectuate by transportation cost ) , butnot so greatfor the grimier truck stops of the world .
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