MSU’s WTI launches program to study safe integration of semi-autonomous trucks

The Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University is launching a program to study how to safely integrate driverless technology into the nation’s trucking fleet.

Similar to the driverless cars being developed by Google and others, self-driving trucks would use sophisticated computers and GPS technology to navigate roadways. Within a decade, the technology is likely to be applied in semi-autonomous truck convoys, or "platoons," in which trucks equipped with self-driving technology would be programmed to follow human-piloted trucks, according to Craig Shankwitz, a senior research engineer in WTI’s Connected Vehicle Initiative.

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