Road train
Self-Driving Volvos Coming Soon: Company Says
One of Volvo’s most recent projects in automotive safety, the “road train,” is finished testing and might well bring autonomous driving to life soon, the brand says.
BMW 5-Series Highly-Automated Driving Mode Road Test [Video]
A dizzying line of taillights that goes on for miles is enough to ruin anyone’s day. Pressure mounts in your temples and your skull feels like it’s going to crack. Welcome to the traffic jam migraine. Don’t worry though, the commuter’s burden will eventually be a thing of the past. If there’s one thing luxury cars…
Volvo Road-Train Completes First Successful Test
A major step towards self-driving cars, Volvo has announced its first successful test of what it calls a “road train”. As a part of the SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project, a test fleet of cars fitted with special equipment becomes a caravan of sorts, bunching up behind a lead vehicle and acting…
European Road Train To Hit The Roads Soon
This sounds pretty cool – in Europe, a project to link cars headed in the same direction into semi-autonomous “road trains” is taking form and will hit the highways in the near future. The European Union’s Safe Road Trains for the Environment (EU Sartre) initiative began last year and has really started to pick up…
