Graham Hill, Car Finance Expert, Explains How New Technology Allows Road Trains To Be Formed.

Monday, 22. March 2010

A group of companies including Ricardo and Volvo Cars are working on new technology that will allow for road trains to be created whereby regular users of a motorway can lock onto each other forming a train of vehicles kept at a constant speed and distance enabling the drivers to get on with other things such as work and phone calls. Much of the technology is already available such as sat nav, distance sensors and adaptive cruise control but it has never been combined to create a road train. The lead vehicle will be controlled by a professional driver but of course much has to be done before this technology becomes a reality. It will need companies, drivers, the police and insurers to all agree on this as the way forward. But an interesting concept and actually something that I thought was already in use by Mercedes trucks in Germany. But what do I know! By Graham Hill