Swedish tech startup Einride has designed T-log, a fully electric and autonomous logging truck, which is designed to hit public roads by 2020.
While many car companies, including Jaguar and Tesla, are developing vehicles with driverless capabilities, Einride have gone a step further and removed the driver's compartment altogether.
As a more powerful version of the startup's previous T-pod model ? an all-electric, autonomous truck revealed last year ? the T-log boasts advanced off-road capabilities and is designed to navigate through rough forest roads.
The driverless timber lorry was debuted last weekend, on 12 July 2018, at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK.

Without having to make space for a driver's compartment, the T-log can be smaller than ordinary logging trucks while still carrying a heavy load of up to 16 tonnes of timber. Removing the drivers cab also reduces the costs of production and operation, while energy consumption is more efficient, as the vehicle would run solely on batteries, even in harsh forest terrains.
"The driver?s cab is what makes trucks expensive to produce, and having a driver in the cabin is what makes them expensive to operate," explained Einride CEO Robert Falck.
"Remove the cabin and replace the driver with an operator who can monitor and remote-control several vehicles at once and costs can be reduced significantly."

Instead of a human driver, the truck is equipped with multiple radar, lidar (like a radar, but u...