Airbus’s new electric truck has an airliner cockpit

Sensors keep track of warning lines and obstacles as onboard computers guide the vehicle to a specific location, accelerating and braking as needed.

Airbus is showing off an unusual vehicle—a truck fitted with basic A350 airliner controls—that it hopes can demonstrate how automated taxiing will make airports safer as concern grows over a spate of jetliners colliding on the ground.