Isuzu Motors to test self-driving truck along expressway

Isuzu Motors Ltd. will soon conduct trial runs of a self-driving truck for transporting spare parts along a public road, the major truck manufacturer announced recently. The truck will serve a route that links the cities of Tochigi, Tochigi Prefecture, and Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, and will be driving itself along a section of an expressway between January and spring next year. A human driver will be aboard the vehicle to keep constant watch over its operating conditions and be ready to take the wheel in an emergency. The truck will carry Isuzu spare parts between Isuzu Group’s operation bases. Isuzu and other commercial vehicle makers are working hard to develop self-driving technologies in the hopes that autonomous vehicles will gain broader traction in society amid the serious driver shortage.

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