Testing begins this summer.
To speed up the development of autonomous cars, Ford and Volkswagen partnered to invest in technology company Argo AI. The Pittsburg-based firm recently announced a piece of breakthrough Lidar technology that can see further and navigate left-hand turns using only a single sensor. Ford and Volkswagen will each benefit from this innovation with the latter announcing plans to begin international trials of autonomous driving using the all-electric ID.Buzz van.
For those who have already forgotten, the ID.Buzz is a concept vehicle based on the same MEB architecture used on the 2021 Volkswagen ID.4. It will come in passenger and cargo versions when it eventually arrives on the market. The first European Argo AI test site will open this summer in Munich, Germany. By then we should see a realistic version of the ID.Buzz, not a concept, rendering, or test mule wearing a different body.