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Truck platoons are moving beyond the interstate highways. A pair of two-hour Breakout Sessions, one focused on truck platooning and the other on solo driverless trucking, were organized and ...
Truck platooning and automated vehicles are right on the cutting-edge of innovation. While different states are currently at different stages when it comes to the autonomous truck question, ...
4. Implement the Right Functionality. This means “having the system do what it needs to do,” Switkes said, citing seven areas of functionality that help make platooning happen safely: ...
LONG BEACH. Platooning technology could offer a major step forward in cutting truck emissions as well as bring significant improvements to highway safety, according to a panel of researchers at ...
Peloton’s truck platooning system is an integrated safety, efficiency, and analytics platform that builds on advanced safety technologies such as collision mitigation and adaptive cruise control ...
WASHINGTON — Truck platooning has not yet advanced beyond the testing and development stage, but proponents and developers of the technology continue to explore ways to eventually deploy it in ...
If you look to the next lane and see two 18-wheelers roar past at 70 mph with just 10 yards between them, you'll probably think they are dangerously close.
It could be years before drivers on U.S. highways catch a glimpse of a tractor-trailer rig cruising down the highway with another truck trailing a perilous 20 or 30 feet behind.
When Daimler Trucks announced in January plans shelve its truck platooning program, I think it took a lot of industry-types by surprise. In reassessing its work on truck platooning – a practice ...
Two trucks paired in Peloton’s platooning system require both drivers to remain fully engaged in braking and steering their individual vehicles. However, automated emergency braking systems and ...
Two-truck platooning shows the potential to reduce fuel consumption in real-world operating conditions according to a Confidence Report released Wednesday by the North American Council for Freight ...