Road Train Trial

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Technology that links vehicles into "road trains" that can travel as a semi-autonomous convoy has undergone its first real world tests.

The trials held on Volvo's test track in Sweden slaved a single car to a lorry to test the platooning system.

Trains of cars under the control of a lead driver should cut fuel use, boost safety and may even cut congestion.

Project researchers believe platoons of cars could be travelling on Europe's roads within a decade.

Roadtrain Technology

If it works well, i'd like to see it in use here.

[Dan_B]

wouldn't work in australia, 99% of drivers on the road can't drive so you'd have trains of people driving 10km/h under the speed limit hahha.

Hopefully it works better then mercedes attempt at this

[89CAL]

radar guided cruise control is a bit different to what this is....... This is actually driving the car

[.:: GimpS-R34 ::.]

Project researchers believe platoons of cars could be travelling on Europe's roads within a decade.

Reminds me of a doco i watched recently.. It was old, say 80s or early 90s perhaps.. Some guy invented a plane car.. And we will be on a sky network for flying around.. And the doco said traffic congestion will have doubleed by yr 2000 and by that time these planes will be in production to the public. And by yr 2010 everyone will be in one.. LOL guess they were wrong

Edited January 19, 2011 by .:: GimpS-R34 ::.

[Beelzebub89]

Hey you know what we do have that's kinda like a plane car. Planes! It's amazing eh. I'm extremely thankful we don't have everyone flying around Fifth Element styles. People these days have enough trouble driving a normal car. Add in an extra dimension and all the other controls that go with it = disaster.

These road trains look pretty cool though.

[.:: GimpS-R34 ::.]

yeah it was your own personal plane which can be driven on the road.. It was all supposed to fly autonomously. And that's the same reason i think this won't work in main steam.. tsome of the monkeys on the road will think they can just let the car drive for them and eat/read the paper and crash.. just look at that silly bitch in USA that thought cruise control meant the car drives itself and got up and went in the back (winnebago)