German vehicle manufacturer MAN has been testing driverless lorries on the motorway for the past couple of days. On Thursday, German Transport Minister Volker Wissing ventured on board a computer-controlled semitrailer truck on the A9 near the southern city of Munich. “Our goal is to become the lead market for automated and connected driving,” the minister said. It could help to cope with the increasing volume of freight despite the growing shortage of drivers, he said. With the law on autonomous driving, which dates back to his predecessor, Andreas Scheuer, Germany has “taken the leading posi…