Mercedes Benz debuts truck platooning system with automated airfield snow clearance demo

Truck platooning system allows a convoy of commercial vehicles to operate with only one human driver
The four Arco tractors were operated as a semi-autonomous platoonIn what it describes as a “step forward on the road to the fully connected and autonomous commercial vehicle”, Mercedes Benz parent company Daimler has for the first time demonstrated its system for operating a convoy of vehicles working in a coordinated task with only one of the vehicles controlled by a human driver, wi