For Volvo, driverless cars won't mean the end of manual driving

Just because Volvo wants to champion driverless cars doesn't mean it wants to kill manual driving either.

“We have no ambition to have a car that could drive in urban environments from A to B,” Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson told Car and Driver. 

“If you’re a normal consumer is that really what you are dreaming about?” Samuelsson asked. Adding, "We believe more that in a situation where it’s not really fun to drive you can switch on the autopilot and then sit back and do something else, use that time more productively. That is the product that we are developing.” Read more...