On the roads of Germany drove a robot truck from Mercedes

Now many automakers, and not only them, create automatic control systems for their cars. This area has become so developed in a short time that some countries / states have legalized the appearance of autonomous cars on their roads (the most famous example is California, USA).

But what about trucks? In this area, the automatic control system for cars is no less, and perhaps more in demand, than in the case of cars.
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Following the trend, the concern Daimler demonstrated the work of its truck with an autonomous control system, and in the field, on a real road in Germany, near Magdeburg. The truck got its own name - Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025.

According to the developers, the automatic control system can cope with driving on roads without a driver, at a speed of up to 85 km / h. The driver himself starts the car, and he enters the road. Then the truck does everything on its own, allowing the driver to rest. Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 drove along an eight-lane autobahn, along with 20 third-party cars (both passenger and cargo) to simulate a real road situation.

The truck reacted to a decrease in the speed of cars traveling in front, reducing / increasing its own speed depending on the behavior of the “neighbors”. In addition, the robot truck reacted to the emergence of "ambulance", drove to the right lane. The ambulance, thus, was able to continue on the left, speed, lane.

By the way, the Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 left the wheel, so that the driver could take control, if necessary.

The system for the Future Truck 2025 includes the performance of the Mercedes-Benz 2014 S-Class, presented last year . So far, this truck model exists in a single copy, there is no car for sale. Unfortunately, nothing is known about the possible price of the truck. According to experts, the addition of an automatic control system to a passenger car increases the price of such a car by about 10 thousand US dollars. In the case of a truck, one must think that this amount needs to be increased several times.

Of course, in order for such trucks to drive on the roads of Europe, it is necessary to adapt the existing legislation. So far, EU officials are working on the adaptation of laws for the emergence of passenger car robots (at least in the UK ), trucks are likely to start thinking a little later.



Via nytimes