There are some months, Freightliner showed off the first road legal car to drive a truck on the Hoover Dam . The self-driving truck or also called Inspiration Truck also received an official license plate of the vehicle autonomously by the Governor of Nevada.
The truck has the same rating as self driving car Google, NHTSA level 3 means that it is fully automated, but it will allow the driver to have comfortable enough transition time to take truck control in the case where emergency.
self driving truck is built to reduce the lower the chances of accidents caused by human error such as driver drowsiness or fatigue. Daimler reported that 0% of accidents are due to human error during driver 1/8 e of them are caused by drowsiness.
As mentioned by Wolfgang Bernhard, during self-driving truck trial trip to Hoover Dam, the brain activity of the driver has been tested with or without autonomous function and driving license the result is that with the activated, driver drowsiness decreases by 25%.
Inspiration truck using the freeway Daimler driver technology that combines radar, stereo computer vision and other sensors to keep it in the same way on the highway. It seems that the autonomous truck is capable of recognizing the white stripes along the highway and programmed to move along with it. However, if these stripes are faded off or there is a bug in the software, the driver must be able to take control of it and not to cause an accident.
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