Zenuity gets green light to trial self-driving cars on Swedish highways
Zenuity, a joint venture between vehicle solution manufacturer Veoneer and Volvo Cars, is to trial self-driving cars on Swedish highways at a maximum speed of 80km/h.
Dennis Nobelius, CEO at Zenuity, says the vehicles will collect important data and improve the company’s safety functions to make unsupervised cars a reality.
Transportstyrelsen, the Swedish transport agency, has approved the trials which will take place on the E4 between Stockholm and Malmö; Road 40 between Jönköping and Gothenburg; a
January 30, 2019
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Zenuity, a joint venture between vehicle solution manufacturer Veoneer and 7192 Volvo Cars, is to trial self-driving cars on Swedish highways at a maximum speed of 80km/h.
Dennis Nobelius, CEO at Zenuity, says the vehicles will collect important data and improve the company’s safety functions to make unsupervised cars a reality.
Transportstyrelsen, the 2124 Swedish transport agency, has approved the trials which will take place on the E4 between Stockholm and Malmö; Road 40 between Jönköping and Gothenburg; and E6 between Gothenburg and Malmö.
The tests will be carried out by trained drivers who will remain behind the wheel.
Self-driving technology is already being phased into Gothenburg at the Chalmers University of Technology. Last year, a self-driving %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000link-external busfalsehttp://www.itsinternational.com/sections/general/news/self-driving-bus-operating-at-chalmers-university-of-technology/falsefalse%> began operating on campus as part of the Swedish government’s Next Generation Travel and Transport programme.
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