Self-Driving Volvo Will Be On Swedish Roads By 2017

The first vehicle in Volvo’s ambitious self-driving car program left the assembly line and is ready for testing by the public, the company said. Built in the Torslanda, Sweden, plant, the Volvo XC90 models will be placed in the hands of the Swedish drivers in 2017, and later with drivers in London and in China. The cars’ hands-off and feet-off capability will be tested in specially designated "autonomous drive zones" in and around the city of Gothenburg. Volvo’s program of fully self-driving vehicles includes quickly putting cars to use by actual drivers, instead of engineers.