Hamburg (dpa / lno) – The Hamburg port group HHLA and the truck manufacturer MAN have, according to their own information, successfully tested autonomous trucks for use in container transport. As part of two-day practical tests, a shipping company brought 40-foot containers on behalf of VW Group Logistics from the shipping company’s logistics center in Soltau to Hamburg, HHLA reported on Thursday. After the container handling at the HHLA Terminal Altenwerder (CTA), the truck returned autonomously.
“The safety driver didn’t have to intervene once,” explained HHLA. “This is the decisive step in the Hamburg TruckPilot pilot project.”
“Autonomous driving will come. This is confirmed by the recently passed law on autonomous driving,” said HHLA project manager Till Schlumberger. “Accordingly, we at HHLA want and have to prepare at an early stage for future autonomous trucks to pick up or deliver containers to our terminals.” The project started in 2018 and aims to research and test automation solutions in road transport. Details are to be presented at the ITS World Congress in Hamburg in mid-October. At the congress, Hamburg wants to show the mobility of the future.
Driverless cars should be able to participate in road traffic in Germany as early as next year. Autonomous vehicles of the so-called level four are then allowed to drive on specified routes in regular operation on public roads. This is a law that the Bundestag and Bundesrat approved in May and which is intended to make Germany a pioneer in autonomous driving.
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Federal Ministry of Transport on autonomous driving
Hamburg Transport Authority for the ITS World Congress
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