MLIT plans to carry out autonomous lorries driving test on a freeway

The ministry announces as under that it is going to conduct experiments for lorries platooning on Shin-Toumei Freeways between Jan.22 and Feb.28. It intends to run three lorries in ten meters distances and the second and the third lorries are driven autonomously though drivers sit behind the driving wheels.http://www.mlit.go.jp/report/press/jidosha07_hh_000297.html