Volvo will hand over this self-driving SUV to a Swedish family next year

Forget Ford's 2025 benchmark to sell self-driving cars to the public. Volvo is handing over a fleet of autonomous SUVs to Swedish families next year.

For a while now, Volvo has said it will launch its public self-driving vehicle experiment called "Drive Me" in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2017. Since this seemed a bit far off (and honestly a bit pie-in-the-sky), we didn't pay much attention. However, the months have slowly ticked by and now 2017 is just around the corner.

Accordingly, Volvo just finished production on its first (of 100) autonomous XC90 SUV that will be handed over to the public in several months. Read more...