
Dutch government organising DAF technology demonstration to put fleets of autonomous trucks on European roads
A consortium of DAF Trucks, TNO, NXP and Ricardo is working together under the name EcoTwin to participate in the European Truck Platooning Challenge being organised by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment on April 6.
The objective of the DAF test is to obtain permission from governments to perform large-scale, pan-European testing of truck combinations that are linked wirelessly – or “platoons”, as the consortium is calling them. [Read more…] about ‘Platoons’ of autonomous trucks set for European roads