Mercedes-Benz presented Future Truck 2025, a study on the future of transport trucks. Connectivity, safety and efficiency are what the Stuttgart brand proposes for the very near future.
Whether in form or technology, the Future Truck 2025 serves as a showcase for what Mercedes-Bens intends to achieve in roughly 10 years' time with its heavy vehicles for the transport of goods.
Let's start with the unavoidable: autonomous driving. As it could not be otherwise, and as it was already predictable, the Mercedes-Benz heavy vehicle department is also betting on autonomous driving. The Future Truck 2025 is the ultimate exponent of what Daimler has achieved so far in this field.
Although it still does not require a driver, this autonomous driving system "Highway Pilot" already has very advanced details, such as the detour to provide safe passage for a vehicle in emergency gear. When entering a motorway, Future Truck 2025 automatically proposes to the driver to activate this system.
On the outside, with the clear objective of increasing the truck's efficiency, the Stuttgart house's designers have endowed this Future Truck 2025 with more rounded, more aerodynamic lines, which help not only with consumption but also to frame it in a more futuristic environment. .
The lighting is in charge of a -huge!- set of LEDs that replace the typical headlights. The color of these LEDs reflects the driving mode: white for manual driving, bluish for autonomous driving. Still outside, in place of the mirrors are cameras whose image is displayed on two screens located on each side of the cabin.
The clean lines and space worthy of a salon are the main characteristics of an interior designed to provide a calm environment for the driver. The extensive use of wood and other premium materials, more easily resembles a saloon than a cargo truck.
Here you won't find the typical complication of the thousands – perhaps not that many – of buttons that usually fill the consoles and dashboards of trucks. Simplicity took over, and control of the vast majority of Future Truck 2025's functions is done through touch screens and a tablet.
As for the all-important driver's seat, in addition to being predictably very comfortable, when entering autonomous driving mode it is possible to move it away from the typical driving position and rotate it 45º in order to give the driver even more space to enjoy. dedicate to tasks other than lead.
