Safer roads for freight in Bavaria

04/01/11 14:36 CET

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Each day, thousands of trucks ply one motorway between Munich and Salzburg. But one section,in Bavaria, Germany, is a bit special. Little do drivers know, but the trucks here are monitored with cameras and sensors. The idea is to let police detect overloaded trucks that destroy roads and risk causing fatal accidents and pollution-generating traffic jams. Find out more in this edition of Hi-Tech.

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