3 December 2013

Big driverless cars plan for Gothenburg

Residents of Gothenburg will be seeing 100 Volvos tooling around with no drivers, writes Brian Byrne, but not until 2017.

The scheme is being planned at the moment between the city officials and the Swedish carmaker, to demonstrate how self-driving cars can deal with a variety of driving conditions. Accessing residential areas, motorways, traffic queues are just some of the situations the vehicles will be working in.

They will also find parking spaces and park themselves.

The project is called 'Drive Me — Self-driving cars for sustainable mobility'.