Get Your Motor Running,Head Out in the Platoon

摘要

Several leading European companies have joined forces with academics to develop and test technology for vehicles that can drivc themselves in road trains on freeways. The European Union-funded autonomous driving project aims to improve traffic flows and journey times, offer greater comfort to drivers, reduce accidents and lower carbon dioxide emissions by improving fuel consumption. Launched in late 2009, the three-year Safe Road Trains for the Environment (SARTRE) project is now set to launch its first tests before the end of the year. Its partners claim semi-autonomous driving could become a reality on European freeways within a decade.