Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test

theodp writes "Covered earlier on Slashdot, but lost in the buzz over the Google driverless car is Project Sartre (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), Europe's experiment with 'vehicle platooning,' which has successfully completed a 125 mile road test on a busy Spain motorway. Three Volvos drove themselves by automatically following a truck in the presence of other, normal road users. The Register reports that on-board cameras, radar and laser tracking allow each vehicle to monitor the one in front, and wirelessly streamed data from the lead vehicle tells each car when to accelerate, break and turn."

Comments

I wonder how well it handled agressive passing

[BagOBones]

On long mountain roads far to often I see someone try to aggressively pass long sets of cars only to have to abort half way, causing other drivers to let them in quickly to avoid an accident..

I wonder if this road train would let them in.

Re:Or you could just take an ordinary train

[Prof.Phreak]

...and since headwind is reduced, that could mean a LOT more efficientcy fuel wise.