Autonomous Vehicle News
VOLKSWAGEN Commercial Vehicles has commenced autonomous driving tests with passengers in Munich this week. VW says it is concurrently testing autonomous driving technology in Europe and North America on public roads and in as many traffic scenarios as possible to ensure production readiness. “Expanding our autonomous vehicle program to North America is the next step in our global strategic roadmap and the result of a long-term investment,” explained Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles head of autonomous driving development, Christian Senger. As reported by GoAuto last year, Volkswagen is preparing to take on Tesla in the realm of autonomous driving with both commercial and passenger offerings boasting highly automated self-driving capabilities. “We are using our economies of scale to make autonomous driving available to many people and to build a learning neural network,” said Volkswagen brand chief executive, Ralf Brandstätter.