has gained £6.6 million of government funding to produce the world’s first self-driving, hydrogen-powered HGV and it will begin trials next year in partnership with UK supermarket giant Asda.
It was awarded by the Centre for Connected Autonomous Vehicles as part of its scheme to develop the “potential of autonomy in the transportation sector”, which, CCAV says, will bolster efficiency and safety and provide new jobs for the industry. The first prototype will feature a driver's cab and its autonomous operation will be road tested with a human driver behind the wheel. The second will not have a driver’s cab and will be tested on track. Its driver's cab will be replaced by an “aerodynamic fairing”. on a hub-to-hub route
“The support we are providing today will help our transport and technology pioneers steal a march on the global competition, by turning their bright ideas into market-ready products sooner than anyone else.”
Total waste of time, money, and effort.
Forget the self driving aspect and concentrate on the hydrogen tech. This is what the wider automotive industry needs.
Every little helps but that isn’t going to stretch far!
A self driving HGV MotoringPodcast 🙄
'government funding' as a term should be banned. It's misdirection - It's 'public funding '. Funding Autonomous hydrogen trucks when synthetic fuels are gaining traction and 'autonomous' driving just serves to remove jobs seems an odd thing to put public money to.
I thought they had made a driver's helmet into a car...
Hydrogen is the future not BEVs , looking forward for FuelCell and hyroden running ICEs.
'awarded government funding' - so that'll never see the light of day then!
Another Britishvolt, then? This lot couldn’t deliver a pizza unless there was a tax dodge on offer.
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