safe road trains for the environment Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:28:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Road Trains Would Reduce Your Car's Fuel Consumption by 20% https://www.greenoptimistic.com/road-trains-would-reduce-your-cars-fuel-consumption-by-20-20091112/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/road-trains-would-reduce-your-cars-fuel-consumption-by-20-20091112/#respond Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:28:48 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5334 The European Union has an ongoing plan of designing an assisted towing they call "road trains". A road train wants to be a wireless controlled system in which a leader truck, driven by a professional driver is the coordinator, and the cars behind it are the followers. The train is going to run on highways, and all the cars would be free to attach and detach the train at will.

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