If driverless cars accord you the jitters, how about computer-assisted trucks instead? Because two 18-wheelers in Nevada attending set to use automation to accomplish them safer and added efficient—and they could be on the anchorage as anon as 2015.
Popular Science reports that the new computer-aided trucks, developed by Peloton Tech, can advance a nice, safe ambit of 33 anxiety amid themselves and the car in front, abrogation the disciplinarian to alone steer. Hardly Google's eyes of a driverless vehicle, but then, these things counterbalance as abundant as a house—so babyish accomplish may be for the best.
The technology uses a real-time video link, GPS system, antennas, and a alarm detector—which currently takes a anniversary to install—providing something affiliated to a hardly smarter adaptation of adaptive cruise control. Perhaps a lot of importantly, it improves ammunition efficiency, by as abundant as 10 percent for the trucks afterward the leader. The achievement is to accept the trucks active on Nevada roads—the aboriginal accompaniment to accept cocky active cars—some time next year. [Peloton Tech via Popular Science via Verge]
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