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SARTRE Road Train Project hits the open highway
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Vehicle platooning as envisaged by the SARTRE project is a convoy of vehicles, where a trained professional driving a lead vehicle controls the line of a fleet of vehicles behind him
The automated road train not only minimizes the human factor that is the cause of at least 80 percent of the road accidents, but also reduces fuel consumption by up to 20 percent since the cars follow close behind each other and benefit from the lower air drag. With only a few meters gap between the vehicles, platooning may also relieve traffic congestion.
The SARTRE vision has already covered over 10,000 kilometres and it is a dream that has come closer to reality through the joint efforts of all its supporting partners, Idiada and Tecnalia Research & Innovation of Spain, Institut für Kraftfahrzeuge Aachen (IKA) of Germany and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Volvo Car Corporation and Volvo Technology of Sweden.
The final implementation of the SARTRE project is not however, a solely a technical matter, and will require several infrastructural changes for vehicle platooning to work seamlessly. The technology is most likely go into production in a few years time, but, hesitant public acceptance of automated vehicles at initial stages and getting 25 EU governments to pass similar laws before SARTRE’s final implementation on world streets may set it back by just a little bit.
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Kelly
It's about time, I draft while biking and it's like sitting in an easy chair as long as you're not in front. Think of how much fuel we could save if trucks did this--just don't tell the lawyers.
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