Trends in automated cars Opportunities and challenges in connected automated cars Presented at ITU Symposium on Future Networked Car. Author : Anders Eugensson, Director, Governmental Affairs, Volvo Car Group

1. Connected
Autonomous Cars
Anders Eugensson
Volvo Car Corporation

2. Global Trends
• Urbanisation
• Growing mega cities
• Air quality major health
problem
• Traffic accident global health
issue
• Time for commuting
• Desire for time efficiency
• Desire for constant
connectivity

3. • Safety
• Fuel economy
• Traffic flow
• Improved mobility
• New mobility solutions
• Infrastructure
• Comfort
• Urban planning
AD Opportunities

4. 4
Why AD? –
Customer Perspective
• What is it that modern people
are lacking?
• Time
• Constant connectivity
What if we can create a car that
offers time, connectivity and a
safe ride?

5. 5
Autonomous Driving Functionality
Driver out of the loop
A self-driving vehicle must be able to handle all situations (and prove
that it can!)
No fall back responsibility for the driver SAE Levels 4 and 5
Highly/ Fully autonomous vehicles

6. Volvo Autonomous Technology
• Cameras
• Radars
• Lasers
• Map data
• Cloud connection
• Traffic Control Centre

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8. Connectivity
Connected safety
applications
• Road friction detection
• Car measures road friction and sends to
other cars through the cloud
• Traffic flow information
• Animals/ Pedestrians/ Bicyclists

9. 9
Connected Autonomous Driving
• Optimized traffic flow:
• Optimized weaving
• Speed and distance between vehicles.
Reduced need for infrastructure investments.
• New mobility models:
• Cars on demand
• ’Peer to Peer’ sharing
• Ride sharing
• Autonomous parking:
• Cars range themselves away from city centres
• Merge between individual mobility and public transportation

10. • Highly and Fully Autonomous vehicles (levels 4 and
5) will bring many opportunities to the society and
to its citizens and will enhance sustainable
mobility:
• AD levels 4 and 5 will safely enable the driver to do
other things while the car is in control.
• Connectivity essential for the safe performance of
highly and fully autonomous vehicles.
• Connectivity may be used for sharing important
safety data and optimizing traffic
• Cloud connectivity for tactical and strategic
decisionmaking.
• Only minor infrastructure changes are needed for
this development.
Connected Autonomous Cars
Conclusions
•Save people’s
time and
uncomplicating
their lives!

11. Thank you!