Motorway driving just got a hell of a lot safer -- and a hell of a lot more terrifying at the same time. Volvo has successfully demonstrated a vehicle road-train system that allows cars to drive ...

For the first time ever, a road train comprised of three driverless Volvo cars — a Volvo XC60, a Volvo V60 and a Volvo S60 — were led in a road train following a heavy duty truck piloted by a ...

Imagine falling asleep behind the wheel of your car. Now imagine being encouraged to fall asleep behind the wheel, or read, or eat or do just about anything other than drive. That’s the idea behind ...

The SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) — a unique project investigating the potential for integrating road trains of platooned vehicles in a mixed environment with other road users — has ...

It's been awhile since we saw Volvo's SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project, which was last running out of harm's way on a test track near Gothenburg. Volvo has just taken a big step ...

The Volvo road train has already undergone successful testing on a closed course. Now, a 120-mile drive across Spain marks the first use of the technology on public roads. It’s called a road train ...

The automobile has been with us for well over a century and while road laws, traffic management and automotive technology in general have constantly evolved during that time, the act of driving ...

We love autonomous cars here at Fast Company–we’ve written about them extensively and even taken the occasional spin. Now, Volvo’s autonomous vehicle platooning technology is finally ready to emerge ...

A major step towards self-driving cars, Volvo has announced its first successful test of what it calls a “road train”. As a part of the SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project, a test ...

The technology behind autonomous cars is rapidly advancing. Google has made huge progress, and Mercedes is on the verge of releasing an S-Class that could drive itself (though it will not). Volvo is ...

The coffee-drinking driver of the Volvo S60 in the above photo has his foot nowhere near the brake, and he isn't even steering with his knees. He's not, however, about to become a statistic about ...