The Hamburg logistics group HHLA and the truck manufacturer MAN are convinced that autonomous trucks will make goods transport safer and more efficient in just a few years.
During the Hamburg mobility congress ITS on Wednesday, both companies drew a positive balance of a pilot project in which self-driving trucks brought containers to the HHLA Altenwerder terminal in the port of Hamburg.
Hamburg - MAN Board Member for Development, Frederik Zohm, announced that his company would like to bring self-driving trucks to series production from 2030.
“Pilot projects such as Hamburg TruckPilot prove that the use of self-driving trucks can be technologically implemented and can be efficiently integrated into logistics processes.” Zohm called self-driving trucks “game changers” in the transport sector.
“Autonomous driving will come. We at HHLA are preparing for this, ”said HHLA CEO Angela Titzrath. From the point of view of the two companies, autonomous trucks can also be a solution to the driver shortage that is increasingly troubling many transport companies.
In the three-year “TruckPilot” project, which was completed in the summer, the VW subsidiary MAN and HHLA tested how autonomous trucks could be integrated into container handling.
To do this, a forwarding company transported a 40-foot container to the terminal on behalf of Volkswagen Group Logistics.
"There the truck drove autonomously across the terminal area and moved smoothly in mixed traffic with other road users," report MAN and HHLA.
“He drove to his destination in the block storage lane and also maneuvered backwards with high precision into the parking position.” After the container had been handled, the return journey to the gate was just as autonomous.
Beyond the terminal area, the driver took control again.
also read
Environment Agency approves sewage sludge furnace in Stavenhagen
A larger sewage sludge incineration plant in Stavenhagen (Mecklenburg Lake District), which has been planned for several years, can now be built.
The responsible office for agriculture and the environment in Neubrandenburg has given the appropriate approval, as head of the office Christoph Linke announced on Tuesday.
The approval was preceded by a comprehensive approval process with an environmental impact assessment.
Environment Agency approves sewage sludge furnace in Stavenhagen
Iveco and Nikola open electric truck production in Ulm
The commercial vehicle manufacturer Iveco has opened a production hall for electrically powered trucks in Ulm.
Together with the US electric car start-up Nikola, the company would like to produce up to 3,000 trucks a year in the medium term, as Iveco boss Gerrit Marx said in Ulm on Wednesday.
Iveco and Nikola open electric truck production in Ulm
Professional boxer Harutyunyan fights against Spaniards for WBC title
The Hamburg professional boxer Artem Harutyunyan gets into the boxing ring for his eleventh professional fight.
The 2016 Olympic bronze medalist will compete against the undefeated Spaniard Samuel Molina in the Hamburg gym on Saturday.
Universum announced this on Wednesday.
It's about the vacant WBC International lightweight title.
Professional boxer Harutyunyan fights against Spaniards for WBC title
Driverless cars should be able to participate in road traffic in Germany as early as next year.
Autonomous vehicles of the so-called level four are then allowed to drive on specified routes in regular operation in public road traffic.
This is a law that the Bundestag and Bundesrat approved in May and which is intended to make Germany a pioneer in autonomous driving.
dpa