Daimler recently let's three automated driving trucks on the road, and arrange them from Stuttgart to Rotterdam. Daimler's move shows both their automated driving technology, and in fact is also European Truck Platooning Challenge part of (European Truck fleet Challenge) - is advantageous to the acceleration autopilot technology in Europe.

The Europeon Truck Platooning Challenge is introduced as the eu's rotating presidency in the Netherlands, the pilot project aims to promote accelerated the development of the automatic driving Truck fleet, reducing congestion, and drivers operating errors caused by accident, but also greatly reduces the Truck emissions of carbon dioxide.

Daimler, the move is part of the Pilot project, the trucks are all Connected by WiFi to the Netherlands from Germany, and adopt the Daimler Connected Highway Pilot system. These trucks and ordinary, ordinary trucks need 50 meters, and the automatic control of truck fleet, car distance between trucks can only about 15 meters. As a result, the whole truck fleet nearly need to account for highway 80 MB of space, shorter than human control truck fleet of 150 m.

This is mainly benefited from Daimler Connected Highway Pilot system. In this system, under the control of truck to within 0.1 seconds know other vehicle emergency braking, this to the reflection of brake light faster than human 1.3 seconds. Of course, in order to ensure safety, Daimler's trip, in a car or a human driver is responsible for the auxiliary system of control.

In addition, Daimler also singled out the truck fleet can also save energy. Because these are very close to the trucks they can make full use of the vehicle path, energy saving can reach 10%, and reduce the carbon dioxide emissions. This energy-saving sounds not many, but if the whole of Europe of trucks have started to use this technology, saving energy is very considerable.