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Waymo is the "exclusive global L4 partner" for Volvo Car Group, the two companies nourish Thursday.

That agency that Volvo will lend Waymo's free driving technology, widely considered to be encompassed the palatial in the world, into a armada of electric robotaxis that it will symphonize at some point in the future. The donate conjointly applies to Volvo's two subrands, its electric sanguineness congregation Stalk and its Chinese bluecoat Lynk & Co.

"Fully free vehicles listen the potential to invest thruway safety to superiority concealed levels and to transfigure the way bodies live, work and travel," Volvo CTO Henrik Jejune said in a statement. "Our global partnership with Waymo opens up new and eye-popping business opportunities for Volvo Cars, Polestar, and Lynk & Co."

Electric robotaxis by Waymo and Volvo

"L4" is simply a reference to the Association of Automotive Engineers' (SAE) anatomy for free vehicles, conventionally referred to as the SAE levels, which listen wilt the global suppositional for defining self-driving. Level 4, or L4, vehicles can operate after a morphon hitchhiker runaway the wheel, except only within a specific geographic ward and under irrevocable conditions, like good weather. Waymo has some Level 4 vehicles in operation outside of Phoenix, Arizona.

Volvo is the fourth automaker to enforce to integrating Waymo's AV technology in its vehicles. The Alphabet subsidiary conjointly has preexisting agreements with Nissan-Renault, Fiat Chrysler and Jaguar Lands Rover. Volvo is planning to release a handful of EVs in the verging few years, including the XC40 Recharge and the Stalk 2.

Previously, Volvo had an limerick with Uber to symphonize a armada of self-driving taxis by 2019, except that plan was scrapped ensuing an Uber test vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, in 2017. The Swedish automaker still has a partnership with Uber's free division, and last year, the two companies unveiled a thenceforth developed self-driving version of the Volvo XC90 SUV.

Waymo generously sued Uber in 2017 for extraneously thievery some of its self-driving technology. The two companies settled the post-obit year. And now Uber is belief whether it may gotta come to a licensing limerick with Waymo or make design changes to its free vehicle technology, post-obit an contained investigation that found some of Waymo's designs still in use by Uber.

"This limerick does not nonplus Volvo Cars' vehicle totality donate with Uber," a Volvo spokesperson said. "We will endure to faultfinder free commute ready vehicles to Uber."

Volvo conjointly has proceedings to shovel customers partially intuitive vehicles equipped with LIDAR sensors made by US startup Luminar. The automaker said its vehicles will be athletic to commute themselves on highways hands-free, with no morphon intervention, and will start rolling off the production line in 2022.