Mercedes-Benz has released fresh details and images about a brand new truck which gives us a peek into what trucks will be in the year 2025.
Once the engine is started, the LEDs begin to illuminate the front mask and headlights while changing directions will enable an orange flashing pattern to warn traffic participants about the truck's intentions. The lights turn white when the truck is being driven manually and blue when the autonomous mode is enabled.
If you thought that is not futuristic enough, then step inside to be greeted by an uncluttered and almost puristic design. The layout combines natural materials to create a relaxing environment. When travelling in autonomous mode, the driver can recline his seat and turn it by 45 degrees to adopt a more comfortable working position while using the removable tablet.
Well, you've seen autonomous cars and know that it is radars and sensors that hold it together, the Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 is no different. There is also the camera technology that gets added to this technology. It boasts a Highway Pilot system similar to the autopilot function of an aircraft while a radar sensor installed in the lower area of the front end scans the road up ahead in both long (250 meters) and short (70 meters) ranges.
There's also a stereo camera above the instrument panel support behind the windscreen scanning 100 meters up ahead and 45 degrees horizontally & 27 degrees vertically. This stereo camera is capable of identifying single or two-lane roads, stationary or moving objects, pedestrians, as well as any other objects within the monitored area.
For the time being, this Future Truck 2025 is just a prototype and it has been built and tested at speeds upto 80km/h and even set free in traffic conditions on a section of the A14 highway in Magdeburg, Germany.
It is laudable that Mercedes-Benz is thinking a decade in advance about future technologies and it may be possible that we may see this Future Truck on roads well ahead of schedule.
