Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars said Monday on the media: it has signed an agreement to supply "tens of thousands" of self-driving cars to Uber, as the ride-sharing company actions a number of contrasting controversies.
Volvo -- which is owned by China's Geely and has yet to build a self-driving system -- said in a statement that it would supply Uber with "autonomous driving compatible base vehicles between 2019 and 2021." Uber would then add its own software arrangement to enable the cars to drive pilot-less. Neither Volvo nor Uber charged financial details, but based on list prices for the cars the deal could be worth more than $1 billion (around 850 million euros).
The deal builds on a non-exclusive compliance signed back in 2016 by Uber and Volvo, which is expected to release its first self-driving car in 2021. Advocates of self-driving cars say that they can cut down on deadly traffic accidents by erasing human error.
