STOCKHOLM: Sweden-based manufacturer, Volvo Cars announced on Thursday it would work with the Uber online sharing service in a joint venture worth $ 300 million for the development of driverless cars.
Both Uber and Volvo will use the same basic vehicle for the next stage of their independent strategies for Volvo Cars, Geely feature of China.
This will involve the addition of own development based on autonomous control systems Uber Volvo.
Uber and Volvo were among the founders of a coalition unveiled in April to press for a unified legal code United States in self-driving cars - a group that includes Google, the automaker Ford and rival Uber Lyft.
The two companies have already announced plans to develop self-driving vehicles, take passengers to their destinations of choice without human intervention.
Uber has unveiled its first self-driving car announced in May that it has begun testing an autonomous vehicle in the streets of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Volvo engineers have begun testing the semiautonomous controlled cars in 2014 in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, where the company is headquartered.
a limited number of people will be left to test the vehicles on the streets of London and Gothenburg next year. More than one million people die in traffic accidents every year. These is tragedie that the self-driving technology may help to solve, but we can not do it alone, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in a statement.
That's why our partnership with a manufacturer like Volvo is so important, he added.
Volvo Cars CEO, Hakan Samuelsson said Volvo placed "company in the heart of the technological revolution in the automotive industry. latest news , technology news
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