Smart Trucks Have Already Arrived

15 Sep by Vitaliy Dadalyan

Smart Trucks Have Already Arrived

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Trucks and cars alike are being designed with new sensing abilities and greater intelligence.

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Trucks and cars alike are being designed with new sensing abilities and greater intelligence.

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The trucks going down the road a decade from now will likely not look drastically different than they do today. And, despite all the hype over autonomous trucks, they probably will still have drivers. It’s what’s going on behind the dashboard and over the air that is truly exciting as we enter a new generation of smart and connected trucks.

Class 8 trucks being introduced today are preloaded with an impressive — and expandable — suite of electronics and wireless communication capabilities. Over the next decade, experts say, those capabilities will exponentially expand the efficiency, safety, productivity, and visibility of commercial trucks hauling freight — in ways that could fundamentally transform trucking and logistics in the 21st century.

The three technologies driving these changes are vehicle connectivity, artificial intelligence, and autonomous operating systems. Many of the systems that will enable these changes are already on trucks today. Over the next five to 10 years, experts say, these systems will become more powerful. They will be able to broadcast and receive data reliably in any location at any time, and they will begin to self-integrate and feed off of each other’s capabilities. Trucks will begin the transformation into rolling computers that can monitor the health of their own disparate operating systems, as well as the cargo they’re carrying, the personnel operating them, and the world around them.

The result will be a flow of real-time information that goes far beyond telematics capabilities today, spilling over into the entire logistics chain.

Integration inside and out

For all the changes coming our way, the outward physical appearance of the trucks themselves is not likely to change much. That’s because the basic mission of these vehicles, the weight they can legally carry, and the legal dimensions …Read the rest of this story

Source:: http://www.truckinginfo.com/channel/equipment/article/story/2017/09/smart-trucks-have-already-arrived.aspx