Motorway maintenance and road workers are sometimes exposed to high-risk working conditions. Safety vehicles with highly visible warning equipment are designed to minimise these risks. However, these vehicles are still often involved in serious rear-end collisions in motorway bottlenecks.
Automated Safety Vehicles on Highways
This has prompted MAN to join seven other partners from the fields of industry, research and administration to develop a prototype driverless safety vehicle that follows the machinery used in mobile roadworks, protecting them from moving traffic.
The ‘aFAS’ researc...
Automated Safety Vehicles on Highways
This has prompted MAN to join seven other partners from the fields of industry, research and administration to develop a prototype driverless safety vehicle that follows the machinery used in mobile roadworks, protecting them from moving traffic.
The ‘aFAS’ researc...
