Editing Platoon (automobile) (section)

=== Deployments ===
====United States====
The USDOT-sponsored National Automated Highway System Consortium (NAHSC) project, a prototype automated highway system, was tested in [[San Diego County, California]] in 1997 along [[Interstate 15 in California|Interstate 15]]. However, despite the technical success of the program, investment has moved more toward autonomous intelligent vehicles rather than building specialized infrastructure. The AHS system places sensory technology in cars that can read passive road markings, and use radar and inter-car communications to make the cars organize themselves without the intervention of drivers. Such an [[autonomous cruise control system]] is being developed by [[Mercedes-Benz]], [[BMW]], [[Volkswagen]] and [[Toyota]].<ref>[http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/membersonly/may98/features/smarter/smarter.html Engineering Newsletters - ASME] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705163747/http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/membersonly/may98/features/smarter/smarter.html |date=2010-07-05 }}. Memagazine.org. Retrieved on 2013-09-04.</ref>

The Federal Highway Administration in 2013 funded two research projects in heavy truck platooning (without steering automation).  One is led by Auburn University<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.eng.auburn.edu/news/2013/12/me-truck-platooning.html|title=Auburn engineers collaborate with industry partners on truck platooning project|date=2013-12-12|work=eng.auburn.edu|access-date=2023-08-09}}</ref> with [[Peterbilt]], [[American Trucking Associations]], [[Meritor Wabco]], and [[Peloton Technology]] and the other is led by California Department of Transportation, with UC Berkeley and Volvo Trucks.

====SARTRE====
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The SARTRE Project ([[Safe Road Trains for the Environment]]), is a European Commission funded project investigating implementation of platooning on unmodified European motorways.<ref name=AboutSARTRE>{{cite web
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}}</ref> The project begun in September 2009, and vehicle platooning, as envisaged by the SARTRE project, is a convoy of vehicles in which a professional driver in a lead vehicle heads a line of closely following vehicles. Each following vehicle autonomously measures the distance, speed and direction and adjusts to the vehicle in front. Once in the platoon, drivers can do other things while the platoon proceeds towards its long-haul destination. All vehicles are detached and can leave the procession at any time.<ref name=SARTRE>{{cite web|url=http://www.greencarcongress.com/2010/12/sartre-20101211.html|title=EU SARTRE road platooning project moving to testing phase; firsts tests of two-vehicle train by end of year
|author=GCC staff |publisher=[[Green Car Congress]]|date=2010-12-11|access-date=2013-11-25}}</ref><ref name=SARTREdemos/>

In January 2011, SARTRE made the first successful demonstration of its platooning technology at the Volvo Proving Ground near [[Gothenburg, Sweden]], in which a lead truck was followed by a car. In January 2012, SARTRE made a second demonstration in [[Barcelona, Spain]], in which a lead truck was followed by three cars driven entirely [[autonomous car|autonomously]] at speeds of up to {{Convert|90|kph|abbr=on}} with a gap between of at most {{Convert|6|m|ft|abbr=on}}. The companies that participated in SARTRE were [[Volvo Trucks]] and [[Volvo Car Corporation]].<ref name=SARTREdemos>{{cite web|url=http://www.greencarcongress.com/2012/01/sartre-project-completes-first-successful-on-road-demo-of-multiple-vehicle-platooning.html|title=SARTRE project completes first successful on-road demo of multiple vehicle platooning|author=GCC staff |publisher=[[Green Car Congress]]|date=2012-01-24|access-date=2013-11-25}}</ref>
;EU Truck Platooning Challenge
During its Presidency of the European Union in 2016, the Netherlands organised a European Truck Platooning Challenge.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.eutruckplatooning.com/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-01-15 |archive-date=2022-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119170739/http://www.eutruckplatooning.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Six brands of automated trucks<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.acea.be/news/article/what-is-the-european-truck-platooning-challenge|title = What is the European Truck Platooning Challenge? – ACEA – European Automobile Manufacturers' Association|date = 10 March 2016}}</ref> – [[DAF Trucks]], [[Daimler Trucks]], [[Iveco]], [[MAN Truck & Bus]], [[Scania AB]] and [[Volvo Trucks]] – ran on public roads from several European cities to the Netherlands.