Daimler’s Self-Driving Truck Isn’t Good for Nervous Highway Drivers

Attention Google : Your self - ram elevator car look wimpish compare to this self - driving beast - turn - truck . On Thursday , German car manufacturer Daimler attest the Mercedes - Benz Future Truck 2025 ( that ’s when it hop the fomite will hit the mart ) to spectators .

TheNew York Times reportsthat it ’s “ open of responding to traffic while driving completely autonomously down a pike ” reaching speeds as high as 52 miles per hour . To simulate real dealings condition , the truck was circumvent by other tryout car that slow down in front of it to show that it ’s adequate to of speed control . In another illustration , it transfer to the far - right lane to allow an emergency brake vehicle to lapse on its leftfield .

But , unlike Google ’s image , the truck does n’t ditch the steering wheel because it ’s still require for safety maneuvers , such as “ overtaking a slower - moving vehicle in the unexpended lane , ” the newspaper adds . There ’s only one image in existence and a monetary value has n’t yet been announced .