The wagon is back: The Volvo V90 Cross Country drives itself through the desert
I’ve borrowed a 2017 Volvo V90 Cross Country for an entire month, and will document my experience every week. Last week I drove to Albuquerque, New Mexico and back for a seven-hour highway test of the V90’s Pilot Assist semi-autonomous technology (and afterwards I stopped by an off-road driving park to get some cool pictures!).
Though Tesla’s Autopilot is perhaps the best-known semi-autonomous technology on the market today, a number of other companies currently or will soon offer something similar. Volvo is one of those, and the V90 Cross Country wagon is equipped with the second-generation of Volvo’s Pilot Assist technology.
Pilot Assist is two technologies working together to make driving a little bit easier: it takes Volvo’s existing...