Forget cities. Volvo is testing auto**mous trucks ... in a mine?
 

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.

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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...

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