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When Autonomous Vehicles Are Introduced on a Larger Scale in the Road Transport System: The Drive Me Project

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The Drive Me project focuses on studying potential benefits when autonomous vehicles are introduced on larger scale in the road transportation system. It aims to put a fleet of 100 autonomous vehicles in the hands of ordinary Volvo customers to operate on public roads in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2017. The customers will not need to continuously supervise the vehicle operation and therefore will be allowed to spend time on other activities. The autonomous vehicles will be used as measurement probes for research on the effect on safety, traffic flow, and energy efficiency. Thus, the Drive Me project has a high-profile ambition to define and evaluate how autonomous vehicles will have a major importance for quality of life and achievement of a sustainable urban environment.

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  1. Volvo Car Group, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Trent Victor, Marcus Rothoff, Erik Coelingh, Anders Ödblom & Klaas Burgdorf

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  1. Institute of Electrical Measurement and Measurement Signal Processing, Virtual Vehicle Research Center and Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Daniel Watzenig

  2. Institute of Automation and Control, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Martin Horn

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Victor, T., Rothoff, M., Coelingh, E., Ödblom, A., Burgdorf, K. (2017). When Autonomous Vehicles Are Introduced on a Larger Scale in the Road Transport System: The Drive Me Project. In: Watzenig, D., Horn, M. (eds) Automated Driving. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31895-0_24

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