Peloton's Level 4 connection could turn page for trucking industry

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{"text":"A Mountain View, California, company has a vision of driver assistive truck platooning as a potential change maker for the trucking industry—in a good way, ie, carrying with it safety and fuel efficiency.\nPlatooning is an emerging vehicle technology, said Trucks.com, where digitally tethered convoys of two or more trucks travel closely together to reduce drag and increase fuel efficiency.\nPeloton Technology is in the news for unveiling its advanced product called Level 4 Automated Following and it is being tested on closed tracks.\nThis is an \"advanced platooning system\" where a single driver can drive a pair of vehicles. Automated Following systems involved V2V communications.\nTechCrunch paints the picture:\n\"With the new Automated Following system, a human driver is in the lead truck. But this time, the follow truck won't have a human driver. The system combines vehicle-to-vehicle communication with radar-based active braking and software. Together, the human driver in the lead vehicle is able to guide the steering, acceleration and braking of the follow truck and connects the safety systems between the trucks with minimal latency, according to Peloton Technology.\"\nTekla Perry in IEEE Spectrum after sketched in the scenario or which the Level 4 solution was designed.. \"In the front truck, the driver drives normally. Whenever he adjusts his foot on the throttle, touches the brakes, or maneuvers the steering wheel, Using the information, along with the data collection from its own collection of radars, cameras, and other sensors, the second truck can safely trail close behind the first, forming a Single-driver platoon.\"\nRead more: https://techxplore.com/news/2019-07-peloton-page-trucking-industry.html ","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[]","canComment":true}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"What happens to the driver that was needed for the following vehicle? Is he in the bunk sleeping,  or unemployed?","replyToPid":0}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"Artificial as well as a massive hosts of perceptions and supported systems of many facets insists humans are expendable. Unacceptable ","replyToPid":0}