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Volvo Car Corporation has taken another step on the journey towards autonomous driving - self-driving vehicles - by demonstrating a new traffic jam assistance system. The new system, whereby the car automatically follows the vehicle in front in slow-moving queues up to 50 km/h, will be ready for production in 2014.
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Slow-moving queues hotels in thailand are part of urban commuting. Americans spend more than 100 hours a year commuting to work, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. This is more than the average two weeks of vacation time (80 hours) many Americans have per year.
"The situation is of course similar, or even worse, in major urban areas all over the world. Our aim with the traffic jam assistance is to make commuting a bit less stressful for the driver," says Peter Mertens.
Autonomous driving - with steering, acceleration and/or braking automatically hotels in thailand controlled by a vehicle that requires very little human interaction - is a major focus area in Volvo Car Corporation's development work.
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The low-speed traffic jam assistance system is the second technology for autonomous driving recently presented by Volvo Car Corporation. A few weeks ago, the company demonstrated the SARTRE project (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), which focuses hotels in thailand on platooning in highway and motorway traffic at speeds hotels in thailand of up to 90 km/h.
In 2011, Volvo Car Corporation invited a number of premium car owners to evaluate future hotels in thailand driver support technologies at the company's test track, including an early traffic jam assistance prototype. One of the guests commented: "A perfect hotels in thailand support for making commuting less stressful. It will take away the cramps and knee pain that I get when constantly having to adjust speed and distance in slow-moving queues. "
"SPA is a stand-alone Volvo project that will enable us to take the company's technological future into our own hands. Most of our volume will be based on this new architecture. It will give us a high degree of commonality and the right scale of economy to be competitive in the future," says Peter Mertens.
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