Automaker to Test Self-Parking Cars in Somerville

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Mayor Joseph Curtatone has signed an agreement with Audi, allowing them to use Somerville as a test city for their self-parking, “intelligent” car.

According to the Boston Business Journal, the German car manufacturer and Somerville will create “an urban strategy” to sync the self-parking vehicles with city traffic lights.

By unveiling the program, Audi and Somerville hope to develop a way to reduce the “space requirement” of cars and “increase the speed of traffic flow.”

The self-parking technology will be tested out at Somerville’s Assembly Square project. According to Audi, the new technology could save Assembly Row up to “$100 million.”

“The intelligent car can unfold its enormous potential only in an intelligent city,” said Rupert Stadler, CEO of Audi, in a statement.