Volvo Pilot with 1,000 Cars in Sweden and Norway Tests Connected Car Concept

Volvo Cars is currently running a pilot with 1,000 cars in Sweden and Norway to test its connected car concept. The approach attempts to create an environment in which road status data collected by cars is shared with other road users and with local authorities through a connected car cloud, such as the Volvo Cloud.

Looking ahead, smart cities could improve traffic flow management by optimizing traffic lights and speed limits and by offering re-routing suggestions based on real-time traffic jam alerts. Real-time warnings of dangerous weather and emergency road conditions or of emergency braking by other drivers could be provided.

In the future, smart cities could even use connected street-lights to illuminate slippery road-sections in another color when detected by a connected car to alert other road users to dangerous road conditions.

Volvo already has the technology whereby a car can detect that a certain stretch of road is slippery and make other connected cars aware of this via the Volvo Cloud.

Such connected car services, Volvo points out, “could deliver both personal and societal benefits by reducing the potential for accidents and lowering the cost of road maintenance by making winter road maintenance more efficient.”

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