Volvo and automated cars

Inland News:

When road train technology is commercialized, a driver equipped with platooning software could use an in-vehicle navigation screen to find the nearest platoon and drive to the end of it. At that point, the car could wirelessly connect to the platoon and take over braking, acceleration, and steering, and drivers could safety start texting or watching a movie.

Volvo technologists speak:

"What we want to try to do is take cars that we have in production today and modify them as little as possible in order to allow them to drive on the road-train platoon project," says Coelingh.

This idea is more powerful when traffic space is purchased In order to purchase traffic space, we need intelligent traffic lights.