Volvo unit demonstrates driverless truck in Japan english.kyodonews.net

By Takuya Okamoto, KYODO NEWS - 11 hours ago - 18:22 | All, JapanThe Japanese unit of Sweden's AB Volvo demonstrated before journalists on Thursday a highly autonomous truck at a sugar factory in Hokkaido, running about 1.5 kilometers without the involvement of a human driver.
UD Trucks Corp. said the test, which began in early August, is the first level 4 experiment using a large truck in Japan.
At the test site, the autonomous truck ran the distance, including about 200 meters on a public road around the factory, at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour.
The heavy duty truck smoothly entered the factory site from the public road and went to a storage site for sugar beets before arriving at the factory where the material is processed.
Japan will see a shortage of 240,000 truck drivers by 2027 due to the country's rapidly aging population, according to Nippon Express.