Volvo Plans To Put Autonomous Drive Me Cars On The Road By 2017

Like many other car makers Volvo is also working on autonomous or self-driving cars. The company has said that it plans on having as many as 100 self-driving cars out and about by the end of 2017. Today the Swedish company provided us with some additional details regarding this plan, which is called Drive Me, and will be initialized with a fleet of 100 autonomous cars.

Volvo will only make the Drive Me cars available to residents in its home town of Gothenberg, Sweden, so don’t kept to get your hands on one in North America, at least not until it is ready to commercially release these vehicles.

The Drive Me cars will employ various sensors that will enable them to drive on their own when they’re on Gothenberg’s highways. On and off those highways drivers will need to control those cars like they would with any other car.

If weather is particularly bad on the highways even in that case drivers will have to take over control from Volvo’s Drive Me vehicles.

The town of Gothenberg will have the ability to disable the autonomous features on this car due to bad weather or unforeseen circumstances. If they do that then drivers will have to control these vehicles at all times. If the driver doesn’t take the wheel in time the car will automatically pull up to the side of the road and stop safely.

Adnan Farooqui
Categories: Transportation
Tags: self driving, volvo