Volvo develops a car that parks itself Volvo has made a concept car which parks itself. Not only can the autonomous vehicle find a vacant space and park in it with no input from a driver, it can also interact with other cars and pedestrians which might get in the way. Thomas Broberg, Volvo Car Group's senior safety advisor, said: "Autonomous Parking is a concept technology that relieves the driver of the time-consuming task of finding a vacant parking space. The driver just drops the vehicle off at the entrance to the car park and picks it up in the same place later. Transmitters in the road surface inform the driver if automated parking is available. The vehicle then uses sensors to find a free parking space, and drives into it. Automatic braking means the car should safely deal with any other cars or people who may be moving around the car park. "Our approach is based on the principle that autonomously driven cars must be able to move safely in environments with non-autonomous vehicles and unprotected road users," explained Broberg. Although completely autonomous parking is some way off for series production cars, Volvo will launch increasingly automated cars in the future. "We will introduce autonomous steering in the all-new Volvo XC90, which will be revealed at the end of 2014," said Broberg.