Daimler hopes to test driverless trucks in Germany before end of 2015

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) newspaper reported Daimler board member Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard as saying that the company is confident of obtaining approval for testing self-driving, but manned, trucks on German motorways within “the coming weeks”. Bernhard said the company will start testing as soon as approval is given, according to an automated translation of the newspaper’s report.