MAN Truck & Bus, Knorr-Bremse, LEONI and Bosch are joining forces to improve safety, flexibility and efficiency in logistics. Together with the automated logistics provider FERNRIDE, the test tool manufacturer BTC Embedded Systems and the research service provider for human factors topics WIVW , they want to put autonomous trucks into operation on the motorway for the first time by the middle of this decade in the ATLAS-L4 project. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Technical University of Braunschweig are providing scientific support for the project, while TÜV SÜD and Autobahn GmbH are contributing their expertise with regard to practical feasibility and the approval process.