Startup company Otto recently set a new milestone in the field of transportation. A Volvo truck equipped with autonomous driving technology successfully completed the first commercial autonomous delivery in the history of transportation after the truck successfully delivered 50,000 cans of Budweiser beer to its destination, covering 193 kilometers without any complications.
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What are the most reliable car brands of 2016? Cars break down, don't they? It does, but some much less than others. The renowned American market research institute JD Power has published the results of a survey on the reliability of car brands. And which are the most reliable? Volvo, Toyota, Mazda, Mercedes, maybe Renault? The result will surprise you!
The year 2016 brings a lot of innovations in all car classes. The work, family, business and sports categories will strengthen their ranks, and there is also an ecological Porsche and a courier for the 21st century.
The Volvo V90 Cross Country is coming. Volvo's 90 family is expanding again. After the Swedish brand, now owned by the Chinese Geely, revealed the station wagon derivative of the V90 model in February, it has now presented a version for the hills – the Volvo V90 Cross Country, which differs from the station wagon in terms of a larger clearance of the body from the road and protective elements. The new Volvo is a combination of elegance and off-road ability.
Ride-sharing provider Uber will soon start transporting its customers with self-driving cars. In fact, it has included customized Volvo XC90 models in its fleet, which will receive the first customers before September. It is the first commercial attempt to use fully autonomous vehicles and this type of technology. And while Uber will already transport customers around the world without a driver, we are still waiting for its arrival in Slovenia. How much longer? Uber assures that it has us "on the fly".
Volvo's truck development department is not kidding! Well, sometimes a little bit. Do you remember the famous Jean-Claude Van Damme action hero string between two of their trucks? Or when they let a kid play with their truck like it was a remote control toy? Now they want to break two speed records with the powerful Volvo Iron Knight truck. We will find out whether they will succeed on August 24, 2016!
"You go your own way, but you never forget where you came from." Swedish-Bosnian football virtuoso Zlatan Ibrahimović and Volvo have shot Prologue, an emotional ad for the Volvo V90 model, with which the famous Swedish car brand begins a new chapter in its history, while not forgetting its roots, as well as the popular Ibrakadabra.
The Volvo 40.1 and 40.2 concepts are "teasers" for the upcoming XC40 and V40 models, which will grow on the new CMA platform, developed with the cooperation of the Swedes and the Chinese. Their direct competitors will be Audi Q2 and Q3, Mercedes GLA and Volkswagen Golf. The boxy days of Volvo are clearly over.
Volvo says goodbye to keys in 2017! Smartphones will, unsurprisingly, cost them their jobs. It will equip its cars with digital car key technology as early as next year. Unlocking the vehicle will be handled by a mobile application that Volvo is developing together with the Swedish company Sunfleet. Thus, one user will be able to open several cars.
Volvo is actually a pioneer in the field of cars with a cut off wagon rear. Remember all those movies where the Volvo station wagon always appears. Old and neglected or new and shiny, the Volvo V90 always means a status symbol and a deviant choice in the automotive world. The Swede is different from what his drivers want to be. And some of them really are. Volvo V90.
The Volvo S90 is a premium sedan from the Swedish car manufacturer, which steps into the shoes of the S80 model, as it did not do well in a class in which German cars do not give the competition much room to breathe. The S90 is a completely new story, and apart from the blood relationship (premium family), it has little in common with its predecessor in terms of content and appearance. Previously, the Volvo S90 was inspired by its relative from the "second generation", the SUV Volvo XC90, after which it summarized all modern technologies and engine range.
Self-driving cars are becoming a reality (proof is Volvo) and we are not far from the times when the driving test will become a museum piece of paper. These types of cars are slowly but steadily making their way to the forefront, so the question is no longer whether we will drive in them in the future or not, but what passengers will do while driving in such cars. Volvo offered us a fantastic insight into this with its extraordinary interior concept, called Concept 26.