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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

The platooning system uses an extra radar sensor that’s programmed to recognize the platooning truck ahead, sophisticated software algorithms, and Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Two-truck platooning is not only a viable technology for the U.S. trucking industry, but it also has the potential to reduce carriers’ fuel consumption, according to a new Confidence Report ...

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 ...