Driverless Truck Convouys To Get UK Trials

Driverless lorries and cars will be trialed in the UK, the government has confirmed in its Budget.

Earlier in March, The Times suggested trials would take place on a "quiet stretch" of the M6 motorway in Cumbria in 2016.

The government has now confirmed, "lorry platooning" trials, in which vehicles form a convoy headed by a driver in the leading lorry, will go ahead.

It also announced that, driverless cars would be trialed, on UK roads by 2017. In the Budget, published recently, the government said it wanted the UK to be "a global centre for excellence in connected and autonomous vehicles".

The driverless lorry plan was outlined in the Chancellor's full Budget posted online. So far companies such as Ford and Google have been testing autonomous cars for months, but trials typically take place in California.

Edmund King, president of roadside recovery firm AA, has questioned the feasibility of a lorry-platooning scheme in the UK.

"The problem with the UK motorway network is that we have more entrances and exits of our motorways than any other motorways in Europe or indeed the world," he said earlier in March.

"Therefore it's very difficult to have a 44 ton 10-lorry platoon, because other vehicles need to get past the platoon to enter or exit the road."

Other technology-related points in the Budget included:

Plans for a £15m "connected corridor" between Dover and London with infrastructure that could communicate directly with vehicles trials of comparative fuel signage on the M5 motorway between Bristol and Exeter, letting drivers see the best deals development of a "5G" strategy in 2017, preparing the UK for next-generation wireless communications a £1,000 tax-free allowance for "micro-entrepreneurs" who sell products online, and a second £1,000 allowance for people who rent out their home online.

BBC: http://bbc.in/1RmkoZH

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