MaaS The 'Buzz' in Driverless Shuttling by Bill Visnic Armed with a new, high-performing Argo-developed lidar, VW's retro ID.Buzz provides a hip start for the VW-Argo automated-driving relationship. Promising the future " digital driver will be even safer than the human driver, " Christian Senger, divisional director at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV), announced in mid-May that his unit will begin testing a pilot of an SAE Level 4 automated-driving shuttle in Munich, Germany, A rendering of the ID.Buzz-based automated shuttle and delivery vehicle Volkswagen will begin testing in fall 2021. this summer. The test prototypes - and an eventual commercial-service fleet slated to be in operation in 2025 - are based on VW's retro-inspired ID.Buzz van fitted with a 360-degree sensing array headlined by a high-performance lidar sensor developed by U.S.-based partner Argo AI. 22 July 2021 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE ENGINEERING Volkswagen