Within the next five years, the German manufacturer says that it will be selling automated, self driving vehicles. Herbie style.
The technology will include cars which are capable of driving themselves and also of parking themselves; Volkswagen call the systems ‘automated driving’ and ‘automated parking’ and they have been produced with the intention of improving safety, fuel efficiency and emissions.
Testing the new technology has been the remit of the Electronic Research Laboratory based in California. The team has already registered successes with fully autonomous cars and more impressively, an Audi RS7 which traversed the Hockenheim race track without a driver.
It is hoped that within five years, drivers around the world will be able to purchase such vehicles, the main stumbling block at present is lawmakers in different regions. Not all areas are convinced fully of the reliability of such advances.
A spokesperson from Volkswagen commented on the possibility of the public mistrusting automated technology: “58 per cent said autonomous driving would remove driving fun. This is especially true in our high-performance Audi and Porsche models – but it is no fun driving a Porsche in a traffic jam! This is the type of thing our customers need to learn about the benefits… And then they will buy the technology.”
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