Daimler in the near future will begin testing the Freightliner Inspiration, their semi-autonomous truck on German public roads, wanting in the next two years, to pass the technology in production. Wolfgang Bernhard, a board member of the company, in a recent interview said that the company will get approval to start the testing of Freightliner Inspiration in the coming weeks, on German motorways.
The Inspiration has the Highway Pilot technology consisting of a radar, a camera and several other safety systems like an Active Cruise Control, allowing the truck to move autonomously on the highway. The company has done more than 16,000 km of tests with the truck in Papenburg track of Germany. The truck can move safely on the highway, it can adjust its velocity and it can achieve a reduction in fuel consumption of up to 5%, and a decrease in CO2 emissions.
