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09-09-2016, 06:05 AM
Forget cities. Volvo is testing auto**mous trucks ... in a mine?
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If you were impressed when carmakers started testing self-driving vehicles on freeways, wait until you get a load of what Volvo has up its sleeves.
Volvo Trucks an**unced Thursday that starting this fall and over the next year and a half it will be testing self-driving versions of its FMX truck inside the underground Boliden mine in Kristineberg, Sweden.
SEE ALSO: Sorry Tesla, Woz says he's trading the Model S in for a Chevy Bolt EV (http://mashable.com/2016/09/07/the-woz-trade-tesla-for-bolt-ev/)
Volvo isn't going subterranean with its trucks simply for sport. Rather, it's keen to figure out how its auto**mous tech**logy can be applied to limited and geographically extreme areas. And I'd say it doesn't get a lot more limited or extreme than an underground mine. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/08/volvo-auto**mous-trucks-underground-mine/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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If you were impressed when carmakers started testing self-driving vehicles on freeways, wait until you get a load of what Volvo has up its sleeves.
Volvo Trucks an**unced Thursday that starting this fall and over the next year and a half it will be testing self-driving versions of its FMX truck inside the underground Boliden mine in Kristineberg, Sweden.
SEE ALSO: Sorry Tesla, Woz says he's trading the Model S in for a Chevy Bolt EV (http://mashable.com/2016/09/07/the-woz-trade-tesla-for-bolt-ev/)
Volvo isn't going subterranean with its trucks simply for sport. Rather, it's keen to figure out how its auto**mous tech**logy can be applied to limited and geographically extreme areas. And I'd say it doesn't get a lot more limited or extreme than an underground mine. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/08/volvo-auto**mous-trucks-underground-mine/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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