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Volvo to Offer $10,000 Self-Driving Features in 5 Years
Volvo Car Group tells a mobility conference in Detroit it will begin offering its customers a self-driving system in five years.
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Volvo Car Group tells a mobility conference in Detroit it will begin offering its customers a self-driving system in five years.
Volvo is already building prototypes of the $10,000 “IntelliSafe” option. It has been testing them in Sweden and says it soon do so in China and the U.K. The company also is supplying semi-autonomous vehicles to ride-hailing provider Uber Technologies Inc. to test in Pittsburgh.
CEO Hakan Samuelsson says the cars will come with a steering wheel but can brake, accelerate and steer automatically, and they can find an available parking spot and park themselves. He describes the feature as a “full autopilot” system that will require no supervision from the driver. “You can sit back and watch a movie,” he tells reporters.
Earlier this month Volvo and Autoliv Inc. announced they will launch a venture early next year to develop control software for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), including self-driving driving systems. The two companies will contribute intellectual property from their own ADAS technologies. They say their venture will have a fully autonomous system ready to commercialize by 2021.
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