As night falls, a single federal police lorry creeps along the southern edge of the former green zone.
The trials held on Volvo's test track in Sweden slaved a single car to a lorry to test the platooning system.
Correction: This story was updated on 19 December 2013 to make it clear that the report says it is possible that a single well could create 51 lorry movements every day.
The initial goal was modest: to put a single car under the control of a lorry, with both travelling at 50kph (31mph).
"The only other road, the A5, which was accessible many hours later, is a single road that became completely overloaded with lorries".
A single well might create up to 51 daily lorry movements, AMEC says, but laws and systems already in place would be enough to absorb the environmental upheaval.
It should also be noted that a single road accident involving one of the many lorries which use this dangerous mountain road could cause a pollution incident which would definitively wipe out the fish population in the guelta.
For example, lorry drivers who work on contract for a single company have been told that under new rules they count as part of the firm for which they deliver, adding 41% to the cost of employing them.
PICK OF THE WEEK Shoving out a single in the first week of the new year says you're either as mad as a lorry or in possession of oodles of chutzpah.
While Egypt has choked off access to Gaza, Israel has loosened it, with 400 lorries recently entering the strip from Israel via the Kerem Shalom crossing in a single day, the liveliest such traffic for many years.
