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Added on the 14/09/2016 17:32:34 - Copyright : Reuters EN
Uber-users in Pittsburgh now have the opportunity to ride in an autonomous vehicle. It's the first time self-driving cars have been made so freely available to the U.S. public and Uber is confident it won't be the last. Jillian Kitchener reports.
Volvo Cars, a leader in automotive safety, and Uber, the leading ride-hailing firm, today present a jointly developed production car capable of driving by itself, the next step in the strategic collaboration between both companies. Uber and Volvo Cars entered a joint engineering agreement in 2016 and have since developed several prototypes aimed at accelerating the companies’ self-driving car development. The Volvo XC90 SUV presented today is the first production car that in combination with Uber’s self-driving system is capable of fully driving itself. The XC90 base vehicle is equipped with key safety features that allow Uber to easily install its own self-driving system, enabling the possible future deployment of self-driving cars in Uber’s network as an autonomous ridesharing service.
Premium car brand Audi is to invest $79.5 billion dollars over the next five years in self-driving electric cars.
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If you've been keeping track of new technology, you have probably heard of self-driving cars. Well, driverless cars took a major leap forward last weekend in Germany. German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt and chairman of Deutsche Bahn Ruediger Grube were among the passengers of the first self-driving bus journey in Germany, a development that may radically change transportation, not only in Europe, but all over the world. The bus, dubbed “Olli”, made several rounds around the Euref-Campus premises in Berlin, and is due to undergo further testing in DB’s Bavaria-based Bad Birnbach test track before it will can be approved to hit the open roads.