Autonomous Vehicle News
In Austin, the company will initially use short-wheelbase versions of the ID Buzz electric minivan imported from Europe for the testing program. "The big aim is that we bring fully autonomous vehicles to the market as a commercial, scalable product," Senger said. We want to improve mobility in cities, road safety, and we want to be a real alternative to a private car." VW has been running experiments with ride-hailing and autonomous versions of those services in its native Germany for several years. "Cities [in the U.S.] are growing and growing, and therefore we think that the overall market potential in the U.S. will be bigger than the market potential in" Europe.