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Driverless lorries to be trialled in UK

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Driverless lorries are to be trialled in the UK, Chancellor George Osborne is expected to confirm in his Budget speech this month.

The Department for Transport said the UK would "lead the way" in testing driverless "HGV platoons".

The technology enables vehicles to move in a group, using less fuel, it said.

The Times reported trials would take place on the M6 in Cumbria later in 2016, with vehicles in convoy headed by a driver in the leading lorry.

The paper said the plans could result in platoons of up to 10 computer-controlled lorries being driven metres apart from each other.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35737104
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What if they want to go to different locations  :exclaim:
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It will be the UK's high tech version of a road train.
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