Volvo to Have Self-driving Cars by 2017

Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars claim that self-driving cars will react ‘faster than most humans’.

 

The Chinese-owned company announced Thursday that they have completed designs for self-driving cars. Already, they intend to put 100 self-driving cars on roads around the Swedish city of Gothenburg in 2017 in a pilot initiative with Sweden’s transport authority and local government.

 

“Volvo Cars (have) designed a complete production-viable autonomous driving system”, Peter Mertens, head of Volvo’s research and development said in a statement. “The key to making this unprecedented leap is a complex network of sensors, cloud-based positioning systems and intelligent braking and steering technologies”.

 

Volvo are locked in a race with their Japanese competitors Nissan and US Internet giant Google to be the first to put fully automated cars into circulation.  

Nurul Nuha (left), the second of six Anwar siblings is the face of the "March to Freedom” campaign, an initiative launched last week to put pressure the Malaysian government to free her father Anwar Ibrahim from prison.

 

"This struggle has been very much a family thing and as a Malaysian, it is about fighting for what is right, for the freedom of human rights", she said.

 

Like many Malaysians, we consider Anwar a political prisoner.

 

"The aim of 'March to Freedom' is to free papa. But it is also to free the judiciary system and other institutions under the current regime, that has been unfair", she added.