'Self-driving' Trucks to be tested on UK roads.
https://mexytek.blogspot.com/2017/08/self-driving-trucks-to-be-tested-on-uk.html
A contract
has been awarded to the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) to carry out the
tests on the vehicles platoons.
In the
platoons, the lead vehicle will be controlled by a human driver and will
communicate with the rest of the convoy wirelessly.
Small
convoys of partially self-driving lorries will be tried out on major British
roads by the end of next year, the government has announced.
Up to
three lorries will travel in formation, with acceleration and braking
controlled by the lead vehicle. The following vehicles will be instructed to
accelerate and brake by the lead vehicle, allowing the lorries to drive closer
together than they could with human drivers.
However,
human drivers will still steer all the lorries in the convoy.
The TRL
will begin trials of the technology on test tracks, but these trials are
expected to move to major roads by the end of 2018.
PICTURE:
motoringresearch.com
