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Volvo self-driving cars

06.08.2013

Volvo, like many other automakers, is interested in building cars that can drive without a driver. She, of course, wants to get ahead of everyone, even Google, so she has been developing the appropriate technology for a long time. The other day, she passed another series of field tests, the results of which Volvo was very pleased with.

Officially, the main goal of creating a system of unmanned control of the car, Volvo calls the desire to reduce the number of accidents and victims on the roads by 2020. In principle, this may indeed be the case, since her cars are considered among the safest in the world.

Its system of autonomous control of cars includes several technologies at once, including those that have long been present in mass-produced cars. In particular, the development of Volvo includes the function of detecting pedestrians on the roads and other obstacles - vehicles, damage to the road surface, and so on. Naturally, the corresponding sensors are connected to the braking system.

At the same time, Volvo teaches its cars to park without a driver, to drive in a convoy (one car is driving and driven by a person, the rest of the unmanned vehicles follow it strictly at a certain speed). Cruise control, of course, will also become part of this system. And speaking of parking, it will be possible to drive a car trying to park carefully at the curb directly from a smartphone or tablet computer - Volvo is developing applications for this.

If the current pace of development of Volvo's new technology continues, it could very well be part of its series-produced vehicles by the end of next year.

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