{"id":1420,"date":"2023-10-20T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T20:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitevitresjacques.com\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T20:37:10","slug":"volvos-self-driving-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitevitresjacques.com\/en\/volvos-self-driving-car\/","title":{"rendered":"VOLVO’S SELF DRIVING CAR?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LONDON (Reuters) – Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars said on Monday it has signed an agreement to provide cars to the autonomous driving technology unit of China’s top ride-hailing firm, Didi Chuxing, for its self-driving test fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Volvo will provide XC90 SUVs equipped with backup steering and braking systems that DiDi Autonomous Driving will integrate with Didi Gemini, its new self-driving hardware platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Didi is currently working toward an initial public offering with a valuation of at least $100 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just last week self-driving startup Cruise, which is backed by General Motors Co, said it had raised $2.75 billion in its latest funding round from investors including Walmart Inc, taking its valuation to over $30 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volvo Cars, which is owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd, will initially provide Didi with hundreds of vehicles, with the aim of adding more as the self-driving test fleet expands, head of strategy Alexander Petrofski told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“For us this is a tremendous opportunity because we gain real-world know-how and get to test our vehicles in a real-world environment,” Petrofski said. “This is something we will benefit from when we start rolling out this technology in applications for our customers.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petrofski said a few of the vehicles have already been delivered to Didi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volvo began providing test cars to Uber’s autonomous driving unit back in 2016. Uber Technologies Inc sold that business to self-driving car startup Aurora last year and is still using Volvo vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This (new agreement with Didi) is in line with our vision to be the partner of choice on a global level” for self-driving fleets, said Volvo’s head of autonomous driving strategy, Johan Taws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The built-in backup systems and safety features on Volvo’s XC90 cars, combined with Didi’s self-driving system ,will eventually allow the cars to operate without safety drivers in robotaxi services, Volvo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CREDITS: https:\/\/www.theguardian.pe.ca\/business\/reuters\/volvo-to-provide-cars-for-didis-self-driving-test-fleet-577539\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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