The PSA Group managed to obtain authorizations in France to carry out experiments in autonomous vehicles with “amateur” drivers.
Autonomous driving and electrification are arguably two of the hot topics in the automotive industry today, and the PSA Group is active on both fronts.If, on the one hand, PSA has already guaranteed that it intends to launch four electric models by 2021, on the other hand, the French group has been running a program for the development of autonomous driving technologies since last year.
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Since July 2015, prototypes tested by experts have traveled 120,000 km in Europe. Now, the PSA Group has managed to obtain authorizations in France to carry out experiments in autonomous vehicles with “amateur” drivers along 2000 km of expressways. Tests start next month.
From 2020 onwards, these technologies that make it possible to delegate the control of driving to the vehicle will arrive in Grupo PSA's production models. Is it a case of saying, in my time, cars had steering wheels?