It is not more than a week ago that the Volkswagen Golf age of 45 years.
Although the name remains the same, however, happened quite a lot with the small and popular car through its life. Last VW developed five copies of the model, there is not just electric powered, but also able to run itself. And they are rolling around on the streets of Hamburg.
the Cars have got a nine-kilometer-long route in the northern part of the city, which they are allowed to run on. Behind the wheel sits a good enough of a driver who is ready to intervene in case of emergency, but the technology in the cars meet level four of the so-called SAE-scale self-propelled functions.
The typing of the Volkswagen in a press release and Automotive News Europe have described.
the Level four is the second-highest on the SAE scale, which means that it is possible to run without the help of the driver in the small areas – for example, in defined areas of a city. In order to make it possible is the car according to Volkswagen have been equipped with radar, laser and special cameras, which is far from the enhancement in a regular Golf.
For comparison, the much debated autopilot in the Tesla models at level two on the SAE scale.
Volkswagen has chosen Hamburg to test its self-propelled Golf models, according to Automotive News, not random. The city is supposedly in the process of building a large test facility to just self-driving cars, where the converted Golf models will be able to simulate city driving.
VW’s test run is the latest action in the car – and teknologigiganternes race to build self-driving cars. Us Uber and Waymo is already well advanced with the development, while the German BMW, according to Automotive News, has tested the level 4 technology since 2017.
as Soon as it seems to go with Waymo, which in december launched its first self-propelled taxi service in Phoenix, UNITED states. The company did last year, further noticed by ordering 20,000 copies of the new Jaguar-Pace electric car, which is planned must also be included in a self-driving taxi fleet by 2020.
Volkswagen has not yet put a date on when the self-propelled technology, which is now being tested, will find its way to the regular Golf models.
