Volvo, the leading Swedish car manufacturer, decided to develop an automatic driving bus in cooperation with Singapore's national universities and bus companies, and on Saturday signed the ceremony in Singapore.

The bus to be developed is 12 meters long and 40 people can sit and after developing the car body in Sweden etc., from next year onwards, there will be a running test site of an auto-driven car at the National University of Singapore, It is to check the operation such as running and parking at the facility.

In Singapore, since 2022, the government plans to introduce automatic driving vehicles into public buses, Volvo is considering participating in the bidding conducted by the Singaporean Government in the future.

Automatic operation buses have been tested in European countries such as the United States and Germany, carmakers and IT companies are competing for development, and this has accelerated the development movement in Southeast Asia as a result It is likely to be done.

Volko Bus' President Hawker Agigneval said, "The test site in Singapore reproduces the road conditions in urban areas and is suitable for test driving, with the aim of introducing the Volvo bus in each country I was talking.