{"id":18100,"date":"2015-10-03T20:52:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T03:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/daimler-tests-self-driving-truck-on-german-highway"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:22:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:22:02","slug":"daimler-tests-self-driving-truck-on-german-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/daimler-tests-self-driving-truck-on-german-highway","title":{"rendered":"Daimler tests self-driving truck on German highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/daimler-tests-self-driving-truck-on-german-highway.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The truck has smart systems including radars, cameras and active speed regulators and works without a human driver \u2014 although one has to be in the driver\u2019s seat and take the wheel if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The standard Mercedes-Benz Actros, fitted with the intelligent \u201cHighway Pilot\u201d system, travelled 14 kilometres (about nine miles) on the A8 motorway, with a driver in the cabin but his hands off the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s premiere is a further important step towards the market maturity of autonomously driving trucks -\u2013 and towards the safe, sustainable road freight transport of the future,\u201d said Wolfgang Bernhard, board member responsible for Daimler Trucks and Buses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/daimler-tests-self-driving-truck-german-highway-214036272.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truck has smart systems including radars, cameras and active speed regulators and works without a human driver \u2014 although one has to be in the driver\u2019s seat and take the wheel if necessary. The standard Mercedes-Benz Actros, fitted with the intelligent \u201cHighway Pilot\u201d system, travelled 14 kilometres (about nine miles) on the A8 motorway, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69422,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100\/revisions\/69422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}