Volkswagen AG has started testing five electric and highly-automated versions of its Golf compact cars on the streets of Hamburg, Germany.
The vehicles, equipped with safety drivers as well as lasers, radars and scanners, will navigate a 3-kilometer area in the northern German city, which is also building a new testing ground complete with intelligent traffic lights.
“To make driving even safer and more comfortable in future, vehicles not only have to become autonomous and more intelligent — cities must also provide a digital ecosystem that enables vehicles,” Axel Heinrich, VW’s head of research, said April 3 in a statement.
